$Id: README 86746 2014-11-17 15:00:13Z gcosmo $ ------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================= Geant4 - an Object-Oriented Toolkit for Simulation in HEP ========================================================= TestEm17 -------- This example is intended to check implementation of the processes of muon interactions: ionization, direct (e+,e-) production, bremsstrahlung, mu-nuclear interaction. It allows to compute differential cross sections (as function of the energy transfered to secondaries), total cross sections and to compare with analytic calculations. 1- GEOMETRY DEFINITION It is a single box of homogeneous medium. Two parameters define the geometry : - the material of the box, - the (full) size of the box. The default geometry (1 m of Iron) is constructed in DetectorConstruction, but the above parameters can be changed interactively via the commands defined in DetectorMessenger. 2- PHYSICS LIST The Physics List of the example uses the main physics constructor (builder) called "emstandard_opt0". As an alternative "local" constructor is provided in which only a limited set of physics processes are defined for muons, pions and proton: ionisation, bremsstrahlung and e+e- pair production. Default energy range for EM processes in this example is from 100*eV to 1000*PeV. Optionally "muNucl" builder may be added activating muon-nuclear inelastic interaction. 3- AN EVENT : THE PRIMARY GENERATOR The primary kinematic consists of a single particle starting at the edge of the box. The type of the particle and its energy are set in PrimaryGeneratorAction (mu+ 10 TeV), and can be changed via the G4 build-in commands of ParticleGun class (see the macros provided with this example). 4- PHYSICS The incident particle is a muon. During the tracking, secondary particles are killed. The number of interactions are plotted as a function of the energy transfered to the secondaries. The total number of interactions is recorded, and the total cross section computed from this. At EndOfRun, the above results are compared with analytic calculations. The functions which compute the theoretical cross sections have been provided by the G4 MEPhI group, and grouped in MuCrossSections class. 5- HISTOGRAMS The test contains built-in 1D histograms for muons filled during Monte Carlo simulation, which are managed by the HistoManager class and its Messenger: 1 Relative muon transferred energy distribution (log10(eps/Emu kin) for knock-on electrons (ionization) 2 -"- direct (e+,e-) pair production by muons 3 -"- bremsstrahlung by muons 4 -"- nuclear interaction by muons 5 ionistion for hadrons 6 (e+,e-) pair production by hadrons 7 bremsstrahlung by hadrons The histos can be activated individually with the command : /testem/histo/setHisto id nbBins valMin valMax : min and max values of log10(eps/Emu kin). At EndOfRun the corresponding histos for analytic calculations are automatically created and filled (histo 11 to 14). One can control the name and the type of the histograms file with the command: /testem/histo/setFileName name (default testem17) 6- VISUALIZATION The Visualization Manager is set in the main(). The initialisation of the drawing is done via the commands /vis/... in the macro vis.mac. To get visualisation: > /control/execute vis.mac The detector has a default view which is a longitudinal view of the box. The tracks are drawn at the end of event, and erased at the end of run. 7- HOW TO START ? execute TestEm17 in 'batch' mode from macro files : % TestEm17 allproc.mac execute TestEm17 in 'interactive mode' with visualization : % TestEm17 Idle> control/execute vis.mac .... Idle> type your commands .... Idle> exit