Name: 20th Geant4 Collaboration Meeting
Start: 2015-09-28T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2015-10-02T18:00:00-05:00
Location: No location set

20th Geant4 Collaboration Meeting

from Monday, 28 September 2015 (08:00) to Friday, 2 October 2015 (18:00)

Monday, 28 September 2015

08:30

08:30 - 09:00
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

09:00 Welcome to Fermilab - Robert Roser (Fermilab)

09:10 Meeting Logistics - V. Daniel Elvira (Fermilab)

09:20 Meeting Objectives - Makoto ASAI (SLAC)

09:30 Geant4 user requirements from HEP Energy Frontier Experiments - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

09:42 Geant4 user requirements from Intensity Frontier Experiments - Robert Hatcher (FNAL/CD)

09:54 Geant4 user requirements from Cosmic and Underground Experiments - Dennis Wright (SLAC)

10:06 Geant4 user requirements from Medical Domain - Joseph Perl (SLAC)

10:18 Geant4 user requirements from Space Domain - Giovanni Santin (ESA / ESTEC)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
11:00
11:00 - 12:45
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

11:00 Welcome - Paul Gueye (Hampton University)

11:05 Goudsmit-Saunderson multiple scattering model - Mihaly Novak (CERN)

11:35 Status of G4DNA Chemistry - Karamitros Mathieu (CENBG/CNRS)

12:05 A Novel, Moment-Preserving Electron Transport Method - David Dixon (UNM)

12:35 EM mini-Forum
11:00 - 12:45
Room: Willson Hall Hornet's Nest WH8XO
Contributions

11:00 G4CP Results and Issues from LHC experiments - John Apostolakis (CERN)

11:25 G4CP Results and Issues from Intensity Frontier - Robert Hatcher (FNAL/CD)

11:50 TAU - Boyana Norris (University of Oregon)

12:15 Memory Leakage Monitoring - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Gabriele Cosmo (CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research) Soon Yung Jun (Fermilab)

12:35 Discussion
12:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 - 14:00
Room: Wilson Hall - Cafeteria
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

14:00 Update on CMake build - Ben Morgan (University of Warwick)

14:20 Update on analysis - Guy BARRAND (LAL) Ivana HRIVNACOVA (IPN Orsay)

14:40 Update on Vis & GUIs - Laurent GARNIER (OSUR / INSU / CNRS)

15:00 Update on Basic & Extended Examples - Ivana HRIVNACOVA (IPN Orsay)

15:15 Update on Advanced Examples - Francesco ROMANO (INFN LNS)
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

16:00 Drupal Migration - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Gunter Folger (CERN)

16:30 Physics validation tools - Hans Wenzel (Fermilab)

17:00 Users' Guides and physics list documentation - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

17:30 The general Geant4 paper - Dennis Wright (SLAC)
18:15

18:15 - 20:00
Room: Wilson Hall - 15N
Tuesday, 29 September 2015
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

08:30 Multiple scattering upgrade: better lateral displacement (L. Urban)

09:00 Validation of multiple scattering angle - Daren Sawkey (Varian Medical Systems)

09:20 Systematic test of gamma-ray models with NIST data (S. Guatelli)

09:40 Therapeutic C-12 Range benchmarking in Geant4 - Susanna Guatelli (Univ of Wollongong)

10:00 Recent validation results from the ESA ROSSINI2 project - Giovanni Santin (ESA / ESTEC)

10:20 Discussion
08:30 - 10:30
Room: WH8XO - Hornet Nest
Contributions

08:30 Updates in Vis - Joseph Perl (SLAC) Laurent GARNIER (OSUR / INSU / CNRS)

08:50 Multithreading visualisation - John Allison (Geant4 Associates)

09:15 Problems with Qt driver - Laurent GARNIER (OSUR / INSU / CNRS)

09:25 How to test vis - Laurent GARNIER (OSUR / INSU / CNRS)

09:50 Discussion
08:30 - 10:30
Room: WH5SW - Board Room
Contributions

08:30 G4CMP - Phonon - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

08:50 G4CMP - charge-carrier - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

09:10 MicroElec - Mélanie Raine (CEA)

09:30 Channeling - Enrico Bagli (INFN)

09:50 Discussion
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
11:00
11:00 - 12:45
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

11:00 Geant4 String Models - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

11:35 Geant4 Cascade Models - Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

11:55 Status Report on the Varied Model Parameters Interface (Bertini) - Julia Yarba (FNAL)

12:15 Status of the Precompound Model - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

12:35 Discssion
11:00 - 12:45
Room: WH8XO - Hornet Nest
Contributions

11:00 medical/dna examples - Mathieu Karamitos (Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory, University of Notre-Dame, Indiana) SEBASTIEN INCERTI (CNRS/IN2P3)

11:25 exoticphysics/ucn example - Peter Gumplinger (TRIUMF)

11:35 parameterisation/Par02 - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

11:45 biasing/GB04 - Marc Verderi (LLR, Ecole polytechnique)

11:50 eventgenerator/basicPrimary - Michel Maire (IN2P3/LAPP)

11:55 parallel/MPI/ex03 - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

12:05 Work plan items & discussion - Ivana HRIVNACOVA (IPN Orsay)
12:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 - 14:00
Room: Wilson Hall - Cafeteria
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

14:00 Geometry Updates - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research) John Apostolakis (CERN)

14:15 Random Number Generators - the MixMax Generator - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research) John Apostolakis (CERN)

14:30 Updates on Run, Event and Detector - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Makoto ASAI (SLAC)

14:50 Trackinfo Enhancements - Marc Verderi (LLR, Ecole polytechnique)

15:20 Discussion - Alexander Howard (ETH, Zurich)
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

16:00 Overview of Geant4 Hadronic Models Development - Alberto Ribon (CERN)

16:15 Radioactive Decays Status and Plans - Dennis Wright (SLAC)

16:35 ParticleHP and NeutronHp Status and Plans - Pedro Arce (CIEMAT)

16:55 GND/LEND Status and Plans - Tatsumi Koi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

17:10 Status of Geant4 Hadronic Validation - Julia Yarba (FNAL)

17:25 Discussion
Wednesday, 30 September 2015
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

08:30 Developments in muon-nuclear models - Dennis Wright (SLAC) Kevin Lynch (York College/CUNY)

08:50 Progress on Radioactive Decay and PhotoEvaporation database - Dennis Wright (SLAC) Laurent Desorgher (SapceIT GmbH)

09:10 Angular Correlations in PhotoEvaporation - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

09:30 Requests for development in low-energy hadronics - Michael Taylor (University of Manchester)

09:50 Discussion
08:30 - 10:30
Room: WH1E use WH8XO for vidyo
Contributions

08:30 Recent developments in USolids/VecGeom, status & plans - Sandro Christian Wenzel (CERN PH/SFT)

09:00 Interfacing USolids/VecGeom in Geant4 - Guilherme Lima (Fermilab)

09:20 Extensions to testing suite and effects on using coarse/precise safety calculation - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research) Tatiana Nikitina (CERN PH/SFT)

09:40 Open issues in transportation and transport in field - John Apostolakis (CERN)

10:00 Discussion
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

11:00 Update on standard EM physics - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

11:30 Update on Low Energy / DNA physics - SEBASTIEN INCERTI (CNRS/IN2P3)

12:00 Validation of EM physics - Daren Sawkey (Varian Medical Systems)

12:20 Discussion
12:30 Luch Break
Luch Break
12:30 - 13:15
Room: Wilson Hall - Cafeteria

13:15

13:15 - 22:30
Room: Chicago
Thursday, 1 October 2015
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

08:30 FNAL Validation Update - Hans Wenzel (Fermilab)

08:50 A new Process Level Validation Tool - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

09:20 Physics Lists in Extended Examples - Ivana HRIVNACOVA (IPN Orsay) Ivana Hrivnacova (IN2P3/IPN Orsay)

09:30 Physics List Factory Update - Robert Hatcher (FNAL/CD)

09:40 Discussion on Physics List documentation
08:30 - 10:30
Room: WH8XO - Hornet Nest
Contributions

08:30 Session Introduction - Enrico Bagli (INFN) Marc Verderi (LLR, Ecole polytechnique)

08:35 Status of Geant4 Reverse MC - Giovanni Santin (ESA / ESTEC)

08:55 Generic-based versus Standard Geometrical Importance Biasing - Alexander Howard (ETH, Zurich)

09:25 Status of Channeling, and requirements from Parallel 2C 'Solid State Physics' - Enrico Bagli (INFN)

09:55 Status of Generic Biasing - Marc Verderi (LLR, Ecole polytechnique)

10:15 General Discussion
08:30 - 10:30
Room: WH5SW - Board Room
Contributions

08:30 Short update on Stepper Development - John Apostolakis (CERN)

08:55 Working session - investigation of 'Locator' issue
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
11:00
11:00 - 12:45
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

11:00 Radioactive decay in super-heavy nuclei - Luis Sarmiento (Lund University)

11:15 TARC Validation - Alexander Howard (ETH, Zurich)

11:30 NeutronHP-ParticleHP Merger - Tatsumi Koi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

11:45 Low Energy Requirements

12:00 Plans for Low Energy Hadronics - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Dennis Wright (SLAC)
11:00 - 12:45
Room: WH8XO - Hornet Nest
Contributions

11:00 C++11 Compilers support - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

11:20 CMake Support for C++11/14/1z - Ben Morgan (University of Warwick)

11:40 Mini Course on C++11 Features - Ivana Hrivnacova (IN2P3/IPN Orsay)
12:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 - 14:00
Room: Wilson Hall - Cafeteria
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

14:00 Summary of C++11 Taskforce Work - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

14:20 C++11 Style Guidelines Document - Ivana Hrivnacova (IN2P3/IPN Orsay)

14:40 MPI Status and Upcoming Work - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

15:00 Intro to C++11 atomics and proposal for G4atomic - Jonathan Madsen (Texas A&M University)
15:30 Coffe Break and Group Photo
Coffe Break and Group Photo
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

16:00 Status of Fast Cross-Section - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

16:20 Report from CALICE results and shower shape discussion - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

17:10 Validation low-mass single diffraction model - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Vladimir Grichine (LPI)

17:20 Validation of kaon-proton elastic scattering - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Vladimir Grichine (LPI)

17:30 Deletion policy of physics processes for MT - Tatsumi Koi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: WH8XO - Hornet Nest
Contributions

16:00 GATE GPU - Julien Bert

16:30 GeantV: Status and Plan - Andrei Gheata (CERN)

17:00 Performance of VecGeom - Sandro Wenzel (CERN)

17:30 Vector Physics Model - Soon Yung Jun (Fermilab)

17:50 Discussion
18:00 Time for travel
Time for travel
18:00 - 19:00

19:00

19:00 - 22:00
Room: Meson Sabika
Friday, 2 October 2015
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

08:30 Parallel session 1A - Daren Sawkey (Varian Medical Systems) Paul Gueye (Hampton University) Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

08:40 Parallel session 1B - Soon Yung Jun (Fermilab) V. Daniel Elvira (Fermilab)

08:50 Parallel session 2A - Daren Sawkey (Varian Medical Systems) Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

09:00 Parallel session 2B - Joseph Perl (SLAC) Laurent GARNIER (OSUR / INSU / CNRS)

09:10 Parallel session 2C - Enrico Bagli (INFN) Makoto ASAI (SLAC)

09:20 Parallel session 3A - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Julia Yarba (FNAL)

09:30 Parallel session 3B - Ivana Hrivnacova (IN2P3/IPN Orsay) Peter Gumplinger (TRIUMF)

09:40 Parallel session 4A - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Michael Kelsey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

09:50 Parallel session 4B - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research) John Apostolakis (CERN)

10:00 Parallel session 5A - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Robert Hatcher (FNAL/CD)

10:10 Parallel session 5B - Enrico Bagli (INFN) Marc Verderi (LLR, Ecole polytechnique)

10:20 Parallel session 5C - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research) John Apostolakis (CERN)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

11:00 Parallel session 6A - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Dennis Wright (SLAC)

11:10 Parallel session 6B - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Ben Morgan (University of Warwick)

11:20 Parallel session 7A - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

11:30 Parallel session 7B - John Apostolakis (CERN) Soon Yung Jun (Fermilab)

11:40 Release schedule - Gabriele Cosmo (CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research)

12:00 Next collaboration meeting - Enrico Bagli (INFN)

12:10 Closing remarks - Makoto ASAI (SLAC) Marc Verderi (LLR, Ecole polytechnique)
12:30 Adjourn
Adjourn
12:30 - 12:35
Room: Wilson Hall - One West

12:35 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:35 - 13:30
Room: Wilson Hall - Cafeteria
13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Wilson Hall - One West
Contributions

13:30 Welcome - Tim Meyer (Fermilab)

13:40 General status report and prospects - Makoto ASAI (SLAC)

13:50 Physics status report and prospects - Dennis Wright (SLAC)

14:00 Requirements of Intensity Frontier experiments - Laura Fields (Fermilab)

14:30 Requirements from LZ experiment - Carl Vuosalo (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

14:40 Requirements from CDMS experiment - Dennis Wright (SLAC)

14:50 Open discussion
15:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Wilson Hall - One West

15:30

15:30 - 17:00
Room: WH8XO - Hornet Nest

15:30 - 17:30
Room: Wilson Hall - One West