Generation of a Primary event

Giada Petringa (LNS-INFN)

Geant4 Beginner CourseMunich, Germany

16.04.2017 - 20.04.2017

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User Classes 2

At initialization At execution

G4VUserDetectorConstruction

G4VUserActionInitialization

G4UserSteppingAction

G4VUserPhysicsList G4UserRunAction

G4UserTrackingAction

G4UserStackingAction

G4UserEventAction

G4VUserPrimaryGeneratorAction

Global: only one instance exists in memory, shared by all threads.

Thread-local: an instance of each action class exists for each thread.

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The Primary is a mandatory action class 3

G4VUserPrimaryGeneratorAction 4

…its concrete implementation 5

…its concrete implementation 6

G4VPrimaryGenerator 7

G4HEPEvInterface 8

G4ParticleGun() 9

G4ParticleGun() 10

G4GeneralParticleSource() 11

G4GeneralParticleSource() 12

G4GeneralParticleSource() 13

ParticleGun Vs GPS 14

Examples 15

example/extended/…..

GPS /eventgenerator/exgps

HEPEvInterface/runAndEvent/RE02/srcRE01PrimaryGeneratorAction.cc

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…It’s all!