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Introduction to Geant4
Lectures by Andrea dell'Acqua (CERN) From the Ann Arbor Workshop on Geant4 26 February to 2 March, 2001.
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At the end of February, 2001 a series of lectures were given at the University of Michigan by Andrea dell'Acqua of CERN on the use of the Geant4 software package.
Geant4 is a software toolkit for simulating the passage of particles through material objects. It is used by high-energy physicists to model and design particle detectors such as the ATLAS detector for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Geant4 is also of use in the areas of nuclear physics, accelerator and space physics, medicine, and bio-physics.
These lectures, which were sponsored by the US ATLAS Collaboration, are now available on the web. Familiarity with the C++ programming language is assumed, but no previous experience with Geant is required. (Some suggestions on how to learn C++ can be found here.) Given the specialized nature of the software, a working knowledge of particle physics and relativistic kinematics would be helpful.
If you are familiar with the Web Lecture system you can go directly to the list of lectures using the link below. If you are new to the Web Lecture system then you may want to read the instructions first. If you ever have problems viewing a lecture then simply press the "HELP" button for some useful suggestions.
A link to a copy of the original web page from the Ann Arbor workshop can also be found below. Among other things, it lists the original participants and the schedule that was followed for the week-long lecture series.
For information: wlap@umich.edu http://www.umich.edu/~wlap Last modified: Mon 07 Jan 2002