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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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Introduction to Geant4 Installation of Geant4 Getting Started DAWN CLHEP Components Elements and Materials Geometry Visualization Attributes	Particles and Physics Processes Kinematics Geometry Revisited Geometry III Run and Event Hits Magnetic Fields User Interface

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.	Introduction to Geant4    (25:39, 10 slides)
	A brief introduction and overview of Geant4, a detector simulation package for LHC detectors and for 21st century high energy physics.
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.	Installation of Geant4    (26:09, 14 slides)
	How to install Geant4 on your computer.
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	§  Exercise N01
.	Getting Started    (27:08, 19 slides)
	Naming conventions, data types, and the main program.
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	§  Exercise N02
.	DAWN    (7:23, 9 slides)
	How to use DAWN, a useful visualization tool.
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.	CLHEP Components    (17:30, 12 slides)
	How Geant4 uses CLHEP components to define systems of units and classes for vectors and rotation matrices.
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.	Elements and Materials    (11:24, 8 slides)
	How to set up and describe the materials and elements that compose physical volumes.
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.	Geometry    (30:36, 30 slides)
	Basic elements of geometry and how to set up your detector geometry.
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.	Visualization Attributes    (11:13, 9 slides)
	How to change the color and visibility flags for objects.
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.	Particles and Physics Processes    (45:26, 26 slides)
	How to set up physics processes, and how to define the particles to be simulated.
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	§  Exercise N03A
	§  Exercise N03B
.	Kinematics    (25:20, 12 slides)
	How to implement particle kinematics in Geant4.
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	§  Exercise N04
.	Geometry Revisited    (21:13, 13 slides)
	Logical volumes, physical volumes, and some alternative ways to position volumes
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.	Geometry III    (43:43, 27 slides)
	More information about Logical Volumes, User Limits, Physical Volumes, and Parameterized Volumes.
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	§  Exercise N05
.	Run and Event    (26:56, 19 slides)
	How to start, change, and abort a Run. How events are processed.
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.	Hits    (48:22, 16 slides)
	How to implement hits in your simulation program. That is, how to make your detector sensitive.
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.	Magnetic Fields    (16:01, 8 slides)
	How to implement magnetic fields in Geant4.
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.	User Interface    (12:55, 6 slides)
	An explanation of Intercoms, and the general User Interface.
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