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G4Sipm documentation

The purpose of the G4SiPM simulation package is the integration of a detailed SiPM simulation into Geant4 (https://github.com/Geant4/geant4) which is a framework widely used in particle physics for detector simulations.

Further information can be found here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2015.01.067

Documentation contents

• 1. Getting started
  • 1.1. Introduction
    • 1.1.1. Supported and Tested Platforms
    • 1.1.2. Required packages
      • 1.1.2.1. Optional
      • 1.1.2.2. Included packages
  • 1.2. Building G4Sipm
    • 1.2.1. Clone repository
    • 1.2.2. Configuring the build
    • 1.2.3. G4Sipm build options
    • 1.2.4. Compiling of G4Sipm
      • 1.2.4.1. Additional Make targets
    • 1.2.5. G4Sipm directory structure
  • 1.3. Developing of G4Sipm using Eclipse
• 2. Sample simulation
  • 2.1. Invocation
    • 2.1.1. Command line arguments
    • 2.1.2. GUI mode
    • 2.1.3. Batch mode
  • 2.2. Run scripts
    • 2.2.1. pde.py
    • 2.2.2. relative_pde.py
  • 2.3. Plot scripts
• 3. Concepts
  • 3.1. Properties files
    • 3.1.1. Definition of a property
    • 3.1.2. Definition of a properties table
      • 3.1.2.1. Example
    • 3.1.3. Source
  • 3.2. G4Sipm model
    • 3.2.1. Working conditions
    • 3.2.2. SiPM properties
      • 3.2.2.1. SiPM properties as a function of the temperature and over-voltage
    • 3.2.3. Source
  • 3.3. G4Sipm config file model
    • 3.3.1. Working conditions
    • 3.3.2. SiPM properties
    • 3.3.3. Config file example
    • 3.3.4. Source
  • 3.4. G4Sipm voltage trace model
    • 3.4.1. Voltage trace properties
      • 3.4.1.1. Source
  • 3.5. G4Sipm gain map model
    • 3.5.1. Random gain map model
    • 3.5.2. Gaussian gain map model
    • 3.5.3. Source
  • 3.6. G4Sipm hit
    • 3.6.1. G4Sipm hit collection
    • 3.6.2. Source
  • 3.7. G4Sipm sensitive detector
    • 3.7.1. Source
  • 3.8. G4Sipm sensitive detector filter
    • 3.8.1. Dead space
    • 3.8.2. Photon detection efficiency
    • 3.8.3. Source
  • 3.9. G4Sipm digi
    • 3.9.1. G4Sipm digi collection
    • 3.9.2. Source
  • 3.10. G4Sipm digitizer
    • 3.10.1. Thermal noise
    • 3.10.2. Correlated noise
    • 3.10.3. Source
  • 3.11. G4Sipm voltage trace digitizer
    • 3.11.1. G4Sipm voltage trace digi collection
      • 3.11.1.1. Source
  • 3.12. G4Sipm cell fire controller
    • 3.12.1. Source
• 4. Application development
  • 4.1. Create a git submodule
  • 4.2. Add G4Sipm to your CMakeLists.txt
  • 4.3. Creation of SiPMs
  • 4.4. Digitization

License

This work is licensed under a GNU General Public License 3.

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
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