Geant4
Sign in to saveAlso known as GEometry ANd Tracking, Geant4—a simulation toolkit
thumb|Visualisation of a simulation. The detector is red and radiation is green.
Key facts
- Software.name
- Geant4
- Software.developer
- Geant4 Collaboration
- Software.latest_release_version
- 11.4.0
- Software.operating_system
- Cross-platform
- Software.genre
- Computational physics
- Software.license
- Geant4 Software License
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- simulation software
- Developer
- CERN
- Platform
- cross-platform
- Official website
- geant4.web.cern.ch
- Image
- DAGATA-Detektor Monte Carlo Simulation with Geant4.png
- Has use
- high energy physics
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- Commons category
- Geant4
- programmed in
- Q2407
- publication date
- 1998-00-00
- operating system
- cross-platform
- user manual URL
- geant4.web.cern.ch/support/user_documentation
- source code repository URL
- github.com/Geant4/geant4
- inception
- 1998-00-00
- software version identifier
- 11.4.1
- title
- Geant4
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Features
- Some high energy physics experiments using Geant4
- Applications outside high energy physics
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|Visualisation of a simulation. The detector is red and radiation is green.
Geant4 (for GEometry ANd Tracking) is a platform for "the simulation of the passage of particles through matter" using Monte Carlo methods. It is the successor of the GEANT series of software toolkits developed by The Geant4 Collaboration, and the first to use object oriented programming (in C++). Its development, maintenance and user support are taken care by the international Geant4 Collaboration. Application areas include high energy physics and nuclear experiments, accelerator and space physics studies. The software is used by a number of research projects around the world.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Geant4” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.