Toolkit Fundamentals

• Class Categories and Domains
  • What is a class category?
  • Class categories in Geant4
• Global Usage Classes
  • Signature of Geant4 classes
  • The HEPRandom module in CLHEP
  • The HEPNumerics module
  • General management classes
• System of units
  • Basic units
  • Input your data
  • Output your data
  • Introduce new units
  • Print the list of units
• Run
  • Basic concept of Run
  • Geant4 as a state machine
  • User’s hook for state change
  • Customizing the Run Manager
  • Managing worker thread
• Event
  • Representation of an event
  • Structure of an event
  • Mandates of G4EventManager
  • Stacking mechanism
• Event Generator Interface
  • Structure of a primary event
  • Interface to a primary generator
  • Event overlap using multiple generators
• Event Biasing Techniques
  • Scoring, Geometrical Importance Sampling and Weight Roulette
  • Physics Based Biasing
  • Adjoint/Reverse Monte Carlo
  • Generic Biasing