SLIC FAQ
General
- What is SLICslic
- Who is the primary maintainer of slic
- Where can I download itslic
- How do I build itslic
- Where can I report problems or bugs in slic
Commands
- How do I run itslic
- How can I get help on the slic's command line interface
- What command line options does slic support
- Where can I get example macro files
- Where can I get example geometry files
- How can I get help on the macro interface
- How do I run in batch mode
- How do I run in interactive mode
- How do I run a file with Geant4 macro commands
- How do I find out what version I'm running
- How do I find out the Geant4 version
- How do I create a job in the LSF batch system
- How do I customize slic's autonaming feature
- How do I set the number of events to run
- What GUIs are available for SLIC
LCIO
- How can I automatically set the name of the LCIO file
- How can I automatically delete an existing LCIO file
- What tool can I use to look at LCIO output from the command line
Physics
- How can I change the physics list
- What do I do when I get an error message about missing Geant4 data files
- How can I change the magnetic field stepper used by Geant4
- What is LCPhys
- Who is the maintainer of LCPhys
- What other simulators use LCPhys
- What other Geant4 physics lists does slic include
Geometry
- Where can I find some geometry files for full detectors
- How do I create my own full detector geometry files
- How do I dump a GDML file of the current geometry
- How can I make slic look for XML schemas in a local directory
- How do I install the XML schemas to a local directory
Visualization
- How can I visualize with OpenGL
- How can I visualize with DAWN
- How can I visualize with OpenInventor
- How can I visualize with VRML
- How can I visualize with HepRep and WIRED
- How can I visualize with ROOT
Event Generation
- What event generators are available from within SLIC
- How do I use a StdHep file as my event source
- How do I use an LCIO file as my event source
- How do I use the General Particle Source (GPS) as my event source
- How do I use the particle gun as my event source
- How can I print information about the current event generator
- How do I skip events in a StdHep file
- How do I set the random seed
- How do I dump the state of the CLHEP random engine
- How can I set the directory for the random dumps
- How do I load back the state of the random engine that I dumped previously