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A method for detector description exchange among ROOT GEANT4 and GEANT3

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GEANT3 and GEANT4 are the detector simulation software programs that are widely used in most nuclear and particle physics experiments. ROOT is a program for framework, data analysis, online and offline software. Detector description is an important function in all these programs. Due to different detector construction methods and respective detector data representative, it is difficult to exchange the detector data among them. A new method based on GDML is developed to automatically convert the detector data among ROOT, GEANT4 and GEANT3. Any existing detector geometry in one program can be mapped to the geometry in the other two programs. In the software development of an experiment, different applications can share and reuse the same detector description. The application of this method in the PHENIX experiment upgrade and PHENIX Forward Vertex Silicon detector design is introduced.

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YOU Zheng-Yun, LIANG Yu-Tie and MAO Ya-Jun. A method for detector description exchange among ROOT GEANT4 and GEANT3[J]. Chinese Physics C, 2008, 32(7): 572-575. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/32/7/012

YOU Zheng-Yun, LIANG Yu-Tie and MAO Ya-Jun. A method for detector description exchange among ROOT GEANT4 and GEANT3[J]. Chinese Physics C, 2008, 32(7): 572-575. doi:10.1088/1674-1137/32/7/012 shu

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A method for detector description exchange among ROOT GEANT4 and GEANT3

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Received Date:2007-09-24
Accepted Date:2007-11-01
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Abstract:GEANT3 and GEANT4 are the detector simulation software programs that are widely used in most nuclear and particle physics experiments. ROOT is a program for framework, data analysis, online and offline software. Detector description is an important function in all these programs. Due to different detector construction methods and respective detector data representative, it is difficult to exchange the detector data among them. A new method based on GDML is developed to automatically convert the detector data among ROOT, GEANT4 and GEANT3. Any existing detector geometry in one program can be mapped to the geometry in the other two programs. In the software development of an experiment, different applications can share and reuse the same detector description. The application of this method in the PHENIX experiment upgrade and PHENIX Forward Vertex Silicon detector design is introduced.