Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Morning Talks

Physics I

• slide 10 - can explicitly list particles
• Need to tell the particles that they need to move
• can group EM physics and all other physics if you would like
• slide 12 - while writing methods in Physics list - use physics list helper (new 4.9.5)
  • helps with ordering
  • list processes, it will put them in correct order
  • you do need to instantiate a particle iterator
• ConstructGeneral is "fictitous" - you can make it anything you like
  • need to loop over all particles (not just those that can decay)
  • check to make sure decay process is applicable for that particle
• Cuts
  • final mandatory method you have to implement
  • 0.7*mm recommended for most applications
  • needed for all 4 (gamma, e-, e+, proton) and no others (even neutrons)
  • can change cut for individual particles (don't have to be the same)
  • if you use a standard package, it wll be set

• Modular physics lists
  • some nice features, like certain things automatic
  • basically a bookkeeping device for EM vs hadronic processes
  • for example proton, electron, decay physics all separate
  • still have to do setCuts, but it is simpler

• Prepackaged physics lists - the "easy" way to do it
• adding hadronic physics is more involved than EM physics
  • need to use models
  • for example - for neutrons - there is a basic model, then there are HP_neutron model
  • there are several physics lists which have been validated by experiment
• geant4.cern.ch/support/proc_mod_catalog/physics_lists/physicsLists.html
• really are a "best guess" of the physics needed in a given use case
• may not do exactly what you want
• possible to use prepackaged physics lists and remove one process and replace it

• Reference Physics Lists
  • subset of prepackaged physics lists

• Questions
  • Hadronic - Bertini vs. binary cascade - you have to decide - need to validate
    • Bertini handles more particles
    • Binary better for lower energies
  • photonuclear - EM or Hadronic - both! - see future talk

Physics II

Not much is said that is not on the slides

• EM
  • standard
  • low energy - 100 eV and below
  • optical photon

• Hadronic
  • Pure hadronic
  • Strong radioactive decay
  • Photonuclear
  • Leptonuclear

• Decay and Parameterization
  • weak decay
  • EM decay
  • Parameterized - EM showers

• Processes
  • final state - all the changes you are going to apply to incident particle
  • energy loss, momentum change, generation of secondaries
  • mixed processes are a mixture of discrete, continuous and At Rest

• threshhold is a distance, not an energy - 0.7*mm in PhysicsList
  • different energy production threshholds depending on energy
  • transition between discrete and non-discrete mode - not actually stopped

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