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0002 Geant4: A Simulation Toolkit
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0005 Geant4 is a toolkit for the simulation of the passage of particles through matter.
0006 Its areas of application include high energy, nuclear and accelerator physics, as well
0007 as studies in medical and space science.
0008
0009 For more information about how to use Geant4 and its application domains, please visit
0010 `the Geant4 website <https://cern.ch/geant4>`_
0011
0012 There are three main reference papers for Geant4:
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0014 - `Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 835 (2016) 186-225 <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900216306957>`_
0015 - `IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 53 No. 1 (2006) 270-278 <https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=33833&arnumber=1610988&count=33&index=7>`_
0016 - `Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 506 (2003) 250-303 <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900203013688>`_
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0019 Installation
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0021 For detailed instructions on building and installing Geant4, including all
0022 supported platforms and configuration options, please refer to
0023 the `Installation Guide <http://cern.ch/geant4-userdoc/UsersGuides/InstallationGuide/html>`_.
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0026 Questions, Bugs, and Requirements
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0028 Full documentation on Geant4, including installation, use of the toolkit in applications,
0029 physics lists, and physics model implementations, can be found on the `User Documentation Site <http://cern.ch/geant4/support/user_documentation>`_.
0030
0031 If you have a question about, or issue using, Geant4, please post on our `User Forum <http://cern.ch/geant4-forum>`_
0032 in the Category and Section relevent to your problem. The forum is `fully searchable <http://cern.ch/geant4-forum/search>`_
0033 so it's possible your question may already have been answered.
0034
0035 If you think you have found a bug in Geant4, please open a ticket on our `Bugzilla Tracker <http://bugzilla-geant4.kek.jp>`_.
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0038 Contributing to Geant4
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0040 Please see the main `Contribution Guide <./CONTRIBUTING.rst>`_.
