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     Geant4 - an Object-Oriented Toolkit for Simulation in HEP
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                        Extended Example B5
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   Example B5 implements a double-arm spectrometer with wire chambers,
   hodoscopes and calorimeters.  Event simulation and collection are
   enabled, as well as event display and analysis.
 
 
   1- GEOMETRY
 
    The spectrometer consists of two detector arms
    (see B5::DetectorConstruction).  One arm provides
    position and timing information of the incident particle while the
    other collects position, timing and energy information of the particle
    after it has been deflected by a magnetic field centered at the
    spectrometer pivot point.
 
      - First arm:  box filled with air, also containing:
 
          1 hodoscope (15 vertical strips of plastic scintillator)
          1 drift chamber (5 horizontal argon gas layers with a
                           "virtual wire" at the center of each layer)
 
      - Second arm:  box filled with air, also containing:
 
          1 hodoscope (25 vertical strips of plastic scintillator)
          1 drift chamber (5 horizontal argon gas layers with a
                           "virtual wire" at the center of each layer)
          1 electromagnetic calorimeter:
                a box sub-divided along x,y and z
                axes into cells of CsI
          1 hadronic calorimeter:
                a box sub-divided along x,y, and z axes
                into cells of lead, with a layer of
                plastic scintillator placed at the center
                of each cell
 
       - Magnetic field region: air-filled cylinder which contains
                               the field (see B5::MagneticField)
 
            The maximum step limit in the magnetic field region is also set
            via the G4UserLimits class in a similar way as in Example B2.
 
    The rotation angle of the second arm and the magnetic field value
    can be set via the interactive command defined using the G4GenericMessenger
    class.
 
   2- PHYSICS
 
    This example uses the reference hadronic physics list, FTFP_BERT,
    and also adds the G4StepLimiter process.
 
 
   3- ACTION INITALIZATION
 
    B5::ActionInitialization class
    instantiates and registers to Geant4 kernel all user action classes.
 
    While in sequential mode the action classes are instatiated just once,
    via invoking the method:
       B5::ActionInitialization::Build()
    in multi-threading mode the same method is invoked for each thread worker
    and so all user action classes are defined thread-local.
 
    A run action class is instantiated both thread-local
    and global that's why its instance is created also in the method
       B5::ActionInitialization::BuildForMaster()
    which is invoked only in multi-threading mode.
 
   4- PRIMARY GENERATOR
 
    The primary generator action class employs the G4ParticleGun.
    The primary kinematics consists of a single particle which is
    is sent in the direction of the first spectrometer arm.
 
    The type of the particle and its several properties can be changed
    via the  G4 built-in commands of  the G4ParticleGun class or
    this example command defined using the G4GenericMessenger class.
 
 
   5- EVENT
 
    An event consists of the generation of a single particle which is
    transported through the first spectrometer arm.  Here, a scintillator
    hodoscope records the reference time of the particle before it passes
    through a drift chamber where the particle position is measured.
    Momentum analysis is performed as the particle passes through a magnetic
    field at the spectrometer pivot and then into the second spectrometer
    arm.  In the second arm, the particle passes through another hodoscope
    and drift chamber before interacting in the electromagnetic calorimeter.
    Here it is likely that particles will induce electromagnetic showers.
    The shower energy is recorded in a three-dimensional array of CsI
    crystals.  Secondary particles from the shower, as well as primary
    particles which do not interact in the CsI crystals, pass into the
    hadronic calorimeter.  Here, the remaining energy is collected in a
    three-dimensional array of scintillator-lead sandwiches.
 
    Several aspects of the event may be changed interactively by the user:
      - angle of the second spectrometer arm
      - strength of magnetic field
      - initial particle type
      - initial momentum and angle
      - momentum and angle spreads
      - type of initial particle may be randomized
 
    The initial particle type can be changed using the G4ParticleGun command:
      /gun/particle particleName
 
    The UI commands specific to this example are available in /B5 command
    directory:
      /B5/detector/armAngle angle unit
      /B5/field/value field unit
      /B5/generator/momentum  value unit
      /B5/generator/sigmaMomentum value unit
      /B5/generator/sigmaAngle value unit
      /B5/generator/randomizePrimary [true|false]
 
    They are implemented in
      B5::DetectorConstruction::DefineCommands(),
      B5::MagneticField::DefineCommands() and
      B5::PrimaryGeneratorAction::DefineCommands() methods
    using G4GenericMessenger class.
 
    In first execution of BeginOfEventAction()
    the hits collections identifiers are saved in data members of the class
    and used in EndOfEventAction() for accessing
    the hists collections and filling the accounted information in defined
    histograms and ntuples and printing its summary in a log file.
    The frequency of printing can be tuned with the built-in command
      /run/printProgress  frequency
 
   6- DETECTOR RESPONSE:
 
      All the information required to simulate and analyze an event is
      recorded in hits.  This information is recorded in the following
      sensitive detectors:
 
        - hodoscope:
            particle time
            strip ID, position and rotation
              (see B5::HodoscopeSD, B5::HodoscopeHit classes)
 
        - drift chamber:
            particle time
            particle position
            layer ID
              (see B5::DriftChamberSD, B5::DriftChamberHit classes)
 
        - electromagnetic calorimeter:
            energy deposited in cell
            cell ID, position and rotation
              (see B5::EMCalorimeterSD, B5::EMCalorimeterHit classes)
 
        - hadronic calorimeter:
            energy deposited in cell
            cell column ID and row ID, position and rotation
              (see B5::HadCalorimeterSD, B5::HadCalorimeterHit classes)
 
      The hit classes include methods GetAttDefs and CreateAttValues to define
      and then fill extra "HepRep-style" Attributes that the visualization system
      can use to present extra information about the hits.
      For example, if you pick a B5::HadCalorimeterHit in OpenGL or a HepRep viewer,
      you will be shown the hit's "Hit Type", "Column ID", "Row ID",
      "Energy Deposited" and "Position".
      These attributes are essentially arbitrary extra pieces of information
      (integers, doubles or strings) that are carried through the visualization.
      Each attribute is defined once in G4AttDef object and then is filled for
      each hit in a G4AttValue object.
      These attributes can also be used by commands to filter which hits are drawn:
      /vis/filtering/hits/drawByAttribute
      Detector Geometry and trajectories also carry HepRep-style attributes,
      but these are filled automatically in the base classes.
      HepRep is further described at: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~perl/heprep/
 
   7- ANALYSIS:
 
    The analysis tools are used to accumulate statistics.
    Histograms and an ntuple are created in B5::RunAction::RunAction()
    constructor for the following quantities:
 
    1D histograms:
    - Number of hits in Chamber 1
    - Number of hits in Chamber 2
 
    2D histograms:
    - Drift Chamber 1 X vs Y positions
    - Drift Chamber 2 X vs Y positions
 
    Ntuple:
    - Number of hits in Chamber 1
    - Number of hits in Chamber 2
    - Total energy deposit in EM calorimeter
    - Total energy deposit in Hadronic calorimeter
    - Time of flight in Hodoscope 1
    - Time of flight in Hodoscope 2
    - Vector of energy deposits in EM calorimeter cells
    - Vector of energy deposits in Hadronic calorimeter cells
 
    The histograms and ntuple are saved in two output files in a default
    (Root) file format.
 
    Another file format (for example xml) can be selected either by
    changing the generic analysis manager default file type:
      analysisManager->SetDefaultFileType("xml");
    or by providing the file names with the extension:
      analysisManager->SetFileName("B5.xml");
      analysisManager->SetNtupleFileName(0, "B4ntuple.xml");
 
    When running in multi-threading mode, the histograms and ntuple accumulated
    on threads are automatically merged in a single output file.
 
   8- PLOTTING:
 
   This example comes with a commented plotter.mac that shows how to use the
   plotting coming with some of the visualization drivers (for example the
   ToolsSG ones) to see the histograms. In it you will see how to activate
   the vis driver (create a "scene handler"), create a viewer, create a scene
   containing a plotter model object, create plotting "regions" (here 2x2
   regions) and attach the histograms to each region. When done, each
   run beamOn should display at end the content of the histograms.
 
   In the second part of plotter.mac, is shown various ways to customize the
   regions, for example changing the bins color, the axis labels fonts, etc...
   This could be done by using default embedded styles, defining styles with commands,
   or setting up directly parameters of the various parts of a plot by using a
   dedicated command.
 
   By default the fonts used are the Hershey vectorial ones that do not need
   an extra package, but you can use some freetype fonts if building with the
   cmake flag -DGEANT4_USE_FREETYPE=ON. Two embedded ttf fonts comes with the
   ToolsSG plotting: roboto_bold (some open source kind of the Microsoft arialbd)
   and lato_regular (close to an helvetica). You can use your own .ttf files by
   using the TOOLS_FONT_PATH environment variable to specify the directory where
   they could be found.
 
  The following paragraphs are common to all basic examples
 
  A- VISUALISATION
 
    The visualization manager is set via the G4VisExecutive class
    in the main() function in exampleB5.cc.
    The initialisation of the drawing is done via a set of /vis/ commands
    in the macro vis.mac. This macro is automatically read from
    the main function when the example is used in interactive running mode.
 
    By default, vis.mac opens an OpenGL viewer (/vis/open OGL).
    The user can change the initial viewer by commenting out this line
    and instead uncommenting one of the other /vis/open statements, such as
    HepRepFile or DAWNFILE (which produce files that can be viewed with the
    HepRApp and DAWN viewers, respectively).  Note that one can always
    open new viewers at any time from the command line.  For example, if
    you already have a view in, say, an OpenGL window with a name
    "viewer-0", then
       /vis/open DAWNFILE
    then to get the same view
       /vis/viewer/copyView viewer-0
    or to get the same view *plus* scene-modifications
       /vis/viewer/set/all viewer-0
    then to see the result
       /vis/viewer/flush
 
    The DAWNFILE, HepRepFile drivers are always available
    (since they require no external libraries), but the OGL driver requires
    that the Geant4 libraries have been built with the OpenGL option.
 
    vis.mac has additional commands that demonstrate additional functionality
    of the vis system, such as displaying text, axes, scales, date, logo and
    shows how to change viewpoint and style.
    To see even more commands use help or ls or browse the available UI commands
    in the Application Developers Guide.
 
    For more information on visualization, including information on how to
    install and run DAWN, OpenGL and HepRApp, see the visualization tutorials,
    for example,
    http://geant4.slac.stanford.edu/Presentations/vis/G4[VIS]Tutorial/G4[VIS]Tutorial.html
    (where [VIS] can be replaced by DAWN, OpenGL and HepRApp)
 
    The tracks are automatically drawn at the end of each event, accumulated
    for all events and erased at the beginning of the next run.
 
  B- USER INTERFACES
 
    The user command interface is set via the G4UIExecutive class
    in the main() function in exampleB5.cc
    The selection of the user command interface is then done automatically
    according to the Geant4 configuration or it can be done explicitly via
    the third argument of the G4UIExecutive constructor (see exampleB4a.cc).
 
  C- HOW TO RUN
 
     - Execute exampleB5 in the 'interactive mode' with visualization:
         % ./exampleB5
       and type in the commands from run1.mac line by line:
         Idle> /control/verbose 2
         Idle> /tracking/verbose 1
         Idle> /run/beamOn 10
         Idle> ...
         Idle> exit
       or
         Idle> /control/execute run1.mac
         ....
         Idle> exit
 
     - Execute exampleB5  in the 'batch' mode from macro files
       (without visualization)
         % ./exampleB5 run2.mac
         % ./exampleB5 exampleB5.in > exampleB5.out
 
 

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