A Geant4-Python Interface : Development and Its Applications

Author

Murakami, K. ; Yoshida, H.

Author_Institution

High Energy Accelerator Res. Organ., KEK, Tsukuba

Volume

1

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 29 2006-Nov. 1 2006

Firstpage

98

Lastpage

100

Abstract

We present a Geant4-Python interface called "Geant4Py", which provides a set of Python modules for using Geant4 on Python. Also we show various applications using Geant4Py, including compile-free scripts, online histogramming analysis with ROOT, Web applications, GUI applications and tools for physics validation, educational uses and medical simulation, discussing runtime performance which can be tuned between execution speed and interactivity for each use-case. These applications show the flexibility and usefulness of dynamic configuration of user applications using Python.

Keywords

graphical user interfaces; high energy physics instrumentation computing; object-oriented programming; physics computing; GUI applications; Geant4-Python interface; Geant4Py; Python modules; ROOT; Web applications; compile-free scripts; medical simulation; online histogramming analysis; Application software; Computer languages; Detectors; Graphical user interfaces; Medical simulation; Nuclear and plasma sciences; Object oriented modeling; Physics; Space technology; User interfaces; GUI; Geant4; Python; ROOT; Scripting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2006. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0560-2

Electronic_ISBN

1095-7863

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.356115

Filename

4178954