Advanced Examples

Geant4 advanced examples illustrate realistic applications of Geant4 in typical experimental environments. Most of them also show the usage of analysis tools (such as histograms, ntuples and plotting), various visualization features and advanced user interface facilities, together with the simulation core.

Note

Maintenance and updates of the code is under the responsibility of the authors. No guarantee can be provided on the functionality and the accuracy deriving from the simulation results.

The advanced examples are fully documented here, below is a summary of what is available:

Table 29 Advanced Examples

Example Name	Short Description
air_shower	Modelling of the ULTRA experiment, EUSO mission
ams_Ecal	Modelling of the electromagnetic Calorimeter (ECAL) of the AMS-02 experiment
brachytherapy	Calculation of dose in a phantom, in the context of brachytherapy
CaTS	Demonstration of the G4Opticks hybrid workflow for the creation and propagation of optical photons on GPUs
ChargeExchangeMC	Simulation of hadronic physics experiments of the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI, Russia)
composite_calorimeter	Example of a test-beam simulation used by the CMS
doiPET	Modelling of a PET scintillator system
eFLASH_radiotherapy	Modelling of a FLASH radiotherapy beamline
eRosita	Modelling of eROSITA astronomical X-ray full-sky survey mission on-board the Spectrum-X-Gamma space mission
exp_microdosimetry	Modelling of detectors and their response for microdosimetry for radiation protection in space
fastAerosol	Development of a custom geometry class for accurately and efficiently simulating aerosols with many droplets
gammaknife	Simulation of an advanced device for Stereotactic Radiosurgery
gammaray_telescope	Model of a typical telescope for gamma ray analysis in the context of space exploration
gorad	Turn-key application for radiation analysis and spacecraft design built on top of Geant4
hadrontherapy	Model of hadrontherapy beamlines
HGCal_testbeam	Demonstration of a high-end High Energy Physics test beam setup, for the endcap electromagnetic calorimeter of the CMS detector CERN-LHCC-2017-023
human_phantom	Calculation of dose in analytical anthropomorphic phantoms
ICRP110_HumanPhantoms	Calculation of dose in ICRP110 anthorpomorphic phantoms
ICRP145_HumanPhantoms	Calculation of dose in ICRP145 anthorpomorphic phantoms
iort_therapy	Model of a typical Intraoperative Radiation Therapy beamline
lAr_calorimeter	Simulation of the Forward Liquid Argon Calorimeter (FCAL) of the ATLAS Detector, CERN, Switzerland
medical_linac	Model of a typical medical linear accelerator for Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)
microbeam	Simulation of the microbeam cellular irradiation beam line installed on the AIFIRA electrostatic accelerator facility located at LP2i Bordeaux, France
microelectronics	Demonstration on how to activate track structure physics models for electrons in a silicon microelectronics device
nanobeam	Simulation of the beam optics of the “nanobeam line” installed on the AIFIRA electrostatic accelerator facility located at LP2i Bordeaux, France
purging_magnet	Modelling of electrons traveling through a 3D magnetic field in the radiotherapy context
STCyclotron	Model of the solid target of the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), Adelaide, South Australia
stim_pixe_tomography	Simulation of three dimensional proton micro-tomography
underground_physics	Example of an underground dark matter experiment. More details are provided in the README file accompanying the example
xray_fluorescence	Example reproducing various setups for PIXE and XRF experiments. More details are provided in the README file accompanying the example
xray_telescope	Simulation of a typical X-ray telescope for space exploration
xray_TESdetector	Application of Geant4 in a space environment. Model of an X-ray detector derived from the X-IFU, the X-ray spectrometer designed and developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) for use on the ATHENA telescope.
Xray_SiliconPoreOptics	Model of a single reflective pore used to simulate on a smaller scale the effect of the millions of pores forming the mirror of the ATHENA Silicon Pore Optics (SPO).