SLIC FAQ
General
- What is SLIC
- Who is the primary maintainer of SLIC
- Where can I download SLIC
- How do I build SLIC
- What is SimDist
- How do I build SLIC using SimDist
- Where can I report problems or bugs with SLIC
Commands
- How do I run SLIC from the command line
- What command line options does SLIC support
- How can I get help on the command line 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
- Where can I get example macro files
- How can I get help on the macro commands
- How do I find out what version of SLIC I am running
- How do I find out what version of Geant4 I am running
- How do I submit a batch job using LSF
- How do I set the number of events to run
- What GUIs are available for SLIC
- How do I print some information about various Geant4 and SLIC data objects at runtime
- How do I print the table of defined materials
LCIO
- What is LCIO
- How do I set the output path for LCIO files
- How do I set the name of the LCIO file
- How do I automatically name an LCIO file
- How do I customize the automatic naming
- How do I automatically delete an existing LCIO file
- How do I append to an existing LCIO file
- How do I cause slic to fail if it finds an existing LCIO file
- How do I set the CHBIT_LONG flag to store explicit hit positions
- How do I set the CHBIT_PDG flag to store each individual MCParticle contribution in a hit
- How do I set the run number
- How can I dump information about my LCIO file 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 do I set the minimum tracking distance for a region
- How do I set physics limits or cuts for a region
- What is LCPhys
- Who is the maintainer of LCPhys
- What other simulators use LCPhys
- What other Geant4 physics lists does slic include
Magnetic Field
- How can I customize the field parameters
- How can I change the magnetic field stepper used by Geant4
- How can I change the delta step
- How can I change the delta intersection
Geometry
- What is GDML
- What is LCDD
- What is the compact description
- 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
- Where can I get example geometry files
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 reset an event source to the first record
- 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