Geant4 Space Users' Forum 2003

UTC
Einstein (ESTEC)

Einstein

ESTEC

Description
The Geant4 particle transport toolkit was first released in 1998. In the years since, space and astrophysics have become a significant user category, with requirements ranging from instrument and detector response verification to radiation shielding optimisation, component effects, support of scientific studies, and analysis of biological effects. ESA continues to actively sponsor new European developments and applications of Geant4 in these various domains, and significant space user groups also exist in the U.S., in Japan, and elsewhere in the world.

The aim of this Forum is to give an overview on Geant4 capabilities from space applications and developments point of view, and to bring together Geant4 users across the space domain. The event will accordingly consist of a one-day Geant4 tutorial, followed by two days of users' presentations and discussion. Topics of the Forum include
  • Emerging requirements in space electronics and Science detector systems
  • Implications of IT trends (software, hardware, networks, GRID)
  • Recent developments in the simulation of hadronic and electromagnetic physics
  • Other Geant4-related generic developments
  • Simulations of future astronaut and aircrew radiation hazards
  • Planetary exploration applications
  • Interface to space environment analysis tools such as SPENVIS
  • Cosmic ray propagation analyses
  • Microdosimetry and other applications on future micro- and nanodevices in space
    • 8:30 AM 6:00 PM
      Geant4 Short Tutorial
      • 8:30 AM
        Registration at the ESTEC Conference Centre 30m
      • 9:00 AM
        Welcome and Scope 15m
        Speaker: Dr Eamonn Daly (European Space Agency)
        Slides
      • 9:15 AM
        Introduction to Geant4 45m
        Speaker: Dr Makoto ASAI (SLAC)
        Slides
      • 10:00 AM
        Geant4 Electromagnetic Physics 50m
        Speaker: Dr Giovanni Santin (ESA)
        Slides
      • 10:50 AM
        Coffee 20m
      • 11:10 AM
        Geant4 Hadronic Physics 50m
        Speaker: Hans-Peter Wellisch (CERN)
        Slides
      • 12:00 PM
        Geant4 Optical Photon Physics 30m
        Speaker: Dr Peter Gumplinger (TRIUMF)
        Slides
      • 12:30 PM
        Geant4 GUI/ Visualisation/ Analysis Tools 20m
        Speaker: Mark Donszelmann (SLAC)
        Slides
      • 12:50 PM
        Lunch 1h 25m
      • 2:15 PM
        Geant4 Latest Developments 30m
        Speaker: Dr Makoto ASAI (SLAC)
        Slides
      • 2:45 PM
        Geant4 Tools for Space 1h
        Speaker: Dr Pete Truscott (Kallisto Consultancy Ltd)
        Slides
      • 3:45 PM
        Coffee 25m
      • 4:10 PM
        Status of SpaceGRID 20m
        Speaker: Hugh Evans (ESA/TEC-EES)
        Slides
      • 4:30 PM
        On-going ESA R&D on Geant4 30m
        Speaker: Mr Petteri Nieminen (ESA)
        Slides
      • 5:00 PM
        Discussion 1h
    • 9:15 AM 6:00 PM
      Users' presentations
      • 9:15 AM
        Simulation of Electrostatic Charging of Test Masses in the LISA Mission 30m
        Speaker: Henrique Araujo (Imperial College)
        Slides
      • 9:45 AM
        Geant4 Application to Low Background Experiments Underground and in Space 30m
        Speaker: Alexander Howard (Imperial College)
        Plots
        Slides
      • 10:15 AM
        Requirements from Geant4 for Calculating Charging Rates in Space Missions 30m
        Speaker: T Sumner (Imperial College)
      • 10:45 AM
        Polarisation Process in the Geant4 Low Energy Electromagnetic Classes + Compton + Rayleigh + Photoelectric + Pair production 15m
        Speaker: Gerardo Depaola (University of Córdoba)
        Compton
        Pair production
        Photoelectric
        Rayleigh
        Slides
      • 11:00 AM
        Break 15m
      • 11:15 AM
        Geant4 Simulation of High-Energy Gamma Ray Experiments 30m
        Speaker: Francesco Longo (University of Trieste and INFN)
        Slides
      • 11:45 AM
        Geant4 Application for X-Ray Astronomy Satellite Astro-E2 30m
        Speaker: Masanobu Ozaki (ISAS)
        Slides
      • 12:15 PM
        Space Applications at NASA/GSFC Using Geant4 35m
        Speaker: Brian Fodness (NASA GSFC)
        Slides
      • 12:50 PM
        Lunch 1h 25m
      • 2:15 PM
        Modelling Packaging Effects on Proton Irradiation Response of NMRC RadFETs 30m
        Speaker: Ms Ana Keating (LIP/ESA)
        Slides
      • 2:45 PM
        A Simulation Tool to Predict Displacement Damage Effects in Electronic Components 30m
        Speaker: K Thiel (University of Cologne)
        Slides
      • 3:15 PM
        Status of the DESIRE Project: Geant4 Physics Validation Studies 30m
        Speaker: Tore Ersmark (KTH Stockholm)
        Slides
      • 3:45 PM
        Break 25m
      • 4:10 PM
        Geant4 Applications for Propagation of Cosmic Rays Through the Earth's Magnetosphere and Atmosphere 30m
        Speaker: Mr Laurent Desorgher Desorgher (Paul Scherrer Institut)
        Slides
      • 4:40 PM
        Interaction of Protons of about 1 GeV with Thin and Thick Targets: Simulation by Geant4 and Comparison with Experimental Data 30m
        Speaker: L.N. Latysheva (INR)
        Slides
      • 5:10 PM
        Discussion 50m
    • 9:15 AM 6:00 PM
      Users' presentations
      • 9:15 AM
        Heavy ions simulation in Geant4 with JQMD code 30m
        Speaker: Tatsumi Koi (SLAC)
        Slides
      • 9:45 AM
        Space Radiation Shielding and Environment Applications with the SHIELD Transport Code 30m
        Speaker: N Sobolevsky (INR)
        Slides
      • 10:15 AM
        Development of an Interface for Using EGS4 Physics Processes in Geant4 35m
        Speaker: Koichi Murakami (KEK)
        Slides
      • 10:50 AM
        Break 25m
      • 11:15 AM
        ONERA/DESP Geant4 Space Environment Toolkits 30m
        Speaker: Christophe Inguimbert (ONERA DESP)
        Slides
      • 11:45 AM
        Future Geant4 Developments and Applications at ESA 15m
        Speaker: Mr Petteri Nieminen (ESA)
      • 12:00 PM
        Discussion and conclusions 50m
      • 12:50 PM
        Lunch 1h 25m
      • 2:15 PM
        Splinter discussions 3h 45m