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How do I use the General Particle Source (GPS)?
How do I use the particle gun?
How can I print information about the current event generator?
What GUIs are available for SLIC?
LCIO
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Geant4 includes a flexible and powerful particle generator called the General Particle Source or GPS.
Execute this command to select GPS as the event source.
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/generator/select gps
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Actually, GPS is the default, but this can be used to switch if another generator is being used (e.g. in interactive mode).
Refer to the GPS User's Guide for detailed instructions on using this tool.
There are also a few sample GPS macros in the slic CVS project at macros/gps*.mac_.
How do I use the particle gun?
Geant4 includes a simple particle gun that can be selected with this command.
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/generator/select gun
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However, GPS is the recommended single particle source, and the G4ParticleGun should be considered deprecated, in my opinion.
How can I print information about the current event generator?
Use the command /generator/dumpEvent to display information about the current generator and its event.
What GUIs are available for SLIC?
There are only a limited number of
SLIC Runner is a Java program that uses Swing.
TODO: Fix SLIC Runner to work with latest SLIC.
The built-in GUIs of Geant4 are available, including the XM interface.
LCIO
What is LCIO?
LCIO stands for Linear Collider IO. It is the standard data format for exchanging event data between different ILC software, including simulators and reconstruction and analysis tools.
What languages does LCIO support?
What tools support LCIO?
If I don't want to run SLIC, are there LCIO files available that I can use to get started with my analysis?
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