Tutorial

Detector Description and Simulation Tool

Application Software Group

Computing and Networks Division

CERN Geneva Switzerland

This tutorial is a short introductionary course to GEANT version 3.21. It includes a short introduction of GEANT and has been created for the first time now for the 1994 CERN School of Computing.

1. - Introduction

2. - Exercise 1

2.1. - Getting started

2.2. - The geometrical tree

2.3. - Basic drawings

2.4. - Plot cross sections ( of p, proton and neutron)

2.5. - Tracking an event

2.6. - Visualize track information

2.7. - Looking at histograms inside GEANT

3. - Exercise 2

3.1. - Prepare the exercise

3.2. - Perform the exercise

3.3. - Use of COMIS

4. - Exercise 3

4.1. - Prepare the exercise

5. - Exercise 4

5.1. - Introduction

5.2. - `Brick-wall' calorimeter

5.3. - Honeycomb `spaghetti' calorimeter