[Triumf-seminars] TRIUMF Seminar today at 14:00

[TRIUMF Seminars]

Date/Time: Thu 2013-08-22 at 14:00

Location:  Auditorium          

Speaker:   Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Title:     Geant4 version 10

Abstract: Geant4 is a toolkit for the simulation of particles passing through and interacting with matter. Its areas of application include high energy, nuclear and accelerator physics, as well as studies in space science, material science, medicine and biology, and also in security and industrial applications. In high energy physics, the Geant4 toolkit fulfills a critical need for the simulation of detectors at the LHC and at other existing and future experiments and facilities. The massive production of event samples similar to those expected in the real experiment is an integral part of the process to design, build, operate highly complex accelerators and detectors and analyze the physics results. Geant4-based simulation is currently the largest consumer of LHC compute cycles. In recent years, space and medicine have become significant user domains, with applications ranging from instrument and detector response verification to radiation dose and shielding optimization and analysis of biological effects. To address this increasing demand of high statistic simulations, the Geant4 Collaboration is releasing a new version of Geant4 (Geant4 version 10.0) in December 2013, which enables the use of multi-core CPUs and coprocessors in multi-threaded mode. This presentation introduces the key design changes in Geant4 for adapting to multi-thread. In addition, it covers new or enhanced features foreseen in version 10, as well as extension of its application domains into condensed matter physics and material science.

Stimulants available 15 minutes before the talk.

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