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
    • Geant4 Short Tutorial
      • 8:30 AM
        Registration at the ESTEC Conference Centre
      • 1
        Welcome and Scope
        Speaker: Dr Eamonn Daly (European Space Agency)
        Slides
      • 2
        Introduction to Geant4
        Speaker: Dr Makoto ASAI (SLAC)
        Slides
      • 3
        Geant4 Electromagnetic Physics
        Speaker: Dr Giovanni Santin (ESA)
        Slides
      • 10:50 AM
        Coffee
      • 4
        Geant4 Hadronic Physics
        Speaker: Hans-Peter Wellisch (CERN)
        Slides
      • 5
        Geant4 Optical Photon Physics
        Speaker: Dr Peter Gumplinger (TRIUMF)
        Slides
      • 6
        Geant4 GUI/ Visualisation/ Analysis Tools
        Speaker: Mark Donszelmann (SLAC)
        Slides
      • 12:50 PM
        Lunch
      • 7
        Geant4 Latest Developments
        Speaker: Dr Makoto ASAI (SLAC)
        Slides
      • 8
        Geant4 Tools for Space
        Speaker: Dr Pete Truscott (Kallisto Consultancy Ltd)
        Slides
      • 3:45 PM
        Coffee
      • 9
        Status of SpaceGRID
        Speaker: Hugh Evans (ESA/TEC-EES)
        Slides
      • 10
        On-going ESA R&D on Geant4
        Speaker: Mr Petteri Nieminen (ESA)
        Slides
      • 11
        Discussion
    • Users' presentations
      • 12
        Simulation of Electrostatic Charging of Test Masses in the LISA Mission
        Speaker: Henrique Araujo (Imperial College)
        Slides
      • 13
        Geant4 Application to Low Background Experiments Underground and in Space
        Speaker: Alexander Howard (Imperial College)
        Plots
        Slides
      • 14
        Requirements from Geant4 for Calculating Charging Rates in Space Missions
        Speaker: T Sumner (Imperial College)
      • 15
        Polarisation Process in the Geant4 Low Energy Electromagnetic Classes + Compton + Rayleigh + Photoelectric + Pair production
        Speaker: Gerardo Depaola (University of Córdoba)
        Compton
        Pair production
        Photoelectric
        Rayleigh
        Slides
      • 11:00 AM
        Break
      • 16
        Geant4 Simulation of High-Energy Gamma Ray Experiments
        Speaker: Francesco Longo (University of Trieste and INFN)
        Slides
      • 17
        Geant4 Application for X-Ray Astronomy Satellite Astro-E2
        Speaker: Masanobu Ozaki (ISAS)
        Slides
      • 18
        Space Applications at NASA/GSFC Using Geant4
        Speaker: Brian Fodness (NASA GSFC)
        Slides
      • 12:50 PM
        Lunch
      • 19
        Modelling Packaging Effects on Proton Irradiation Response of NMRC RadFETs
        Speaker: Ms Ana Keating (LIP/ESA)
        Slides
      • 20
        A Simulation Tool to Predict Displacement Damage Effects in Electronic Components
        Speaker: K Thiel (University of Cologne)
        Slides
      • 21
        Status of the DESIRE Project: Geant4 Physics Validation Studies
        Speaker: Tore Ersmark (KTH Stockholm)
        Slides
      • 3:45 PM
        Break
      • 22
        Geant4 Applications for Propagation of Cosmic Rays Through the Earth's Magnetosphere and Atmosphere
        Speaker: Mr Laurent Desorgher Desorgher (Paul Scherrer Institut)
        Slides
      • 23
        Interaction of Protons of about 1 GeV with Thin and Thick Targets: Simulation by Geant4 and Comparison with Experimental Data
        Speaker: L.N. Latysheva (INR)
        Slides
      • 24
        Discussion
    • Users' presentations
      • 25
        Heavy ions simulation in Geant4 with JQMD code
        Speaker: Tatsumi Koi (SLAC)
        Slides
      • 26
        Space Radiation Shielding and Environment Applications with the SHIELD Transport Code
        Speaker: N Sobolevsky (INR)
        Slides
      • 27
        Development of an Interface for Using EGS4 Physics Processes in Geant4
        Speaker: Koichi Murakami (KEK)
        Slides
      • 10:50 AM
        Break
      • 28
        ONERA/DESP Geant4 Space Environment Toolkits
        Speaker: Christophe Inguimbert (ONERA DESP)
        Slides
      • 29
        Future Geant4 Developments and Applications at ESA
        Speaker: Mr Petteri Nieminen (ESA)
      • 30
        Discussion and conclusions
      • 12:50 PM
        Lunch
      • 31
        Splinter discussions