CaTS: Calorimeter and Tracker Simulation

CaTS is a flexible and extend-able framework (based on geant4 and ROOT) for the simulation of calorimeter and tracking detectors. It also serves as an Example that demonstrates how to use opticks from within Geant4 for the creation and propagation of optical photons. https://bitbucket.org/simoncblyth/opticks.git.

The components of CaTS are:

Detector Description: described in gdml input file (e.g. crystalcal.gdml) (Geometry, Materials, optical properties, sensitive detector)

Input modules:

GPS
Particle Gun
HEPMC (Pythia)

Physics Lists: choice of all Reference Physics Lists optical physics processes (Cerenkov, Rayleigh, Scintillation etc.) are added (talk to)

Sensitive Detectors: (+ corresponding Hit classes)

TrackerSD(Hit)  registers the step points of charged particles.
CalorimeterSD(Hit) registering energy deposit
DRCalorimeterSD(Hit) besides registering energy deposit counts produced Cerenkov photons
MsCSD(Hit) used to study multiple scattering on a thin layer
PhotonSD(Hit) sensitive detector that registers optical photons.
lArTPCSD(Hit) sensitive detector that registers ionization and collects Gensteps (Scintillation and Cerenkov) to be processed by Opticks.



RadiatorSD no Hits just collection of Gensteps  (Scintillation and Cerenkov) to be processed by Opticks.

This requires the opticks environment to be set up properly (see https://github.com/hanswenzel/CaTS/blob/master/Instructions.md)

To get started :

git clone https://github.com/hanswenzel/CaTS.git
cd CaTS/

# to setup the opticks environment source the setup_opticks.sh file described in:
# https://github.com/hanswenzel/CaTS/blob/master/Instructions.md


source (path to opticks WORK_DIR)/setup_opticks.sh 
cd ../
mkdir CaTS-build
cd CaTS-build

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug \
  -DWITH_G4OPTICKS=ON \
  -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="${LOCAL_BASE}/opticks/externals;${LOCAL_BASE}/opticks" \
  -DOPTICKS_PREFIX=${LOCAL_BASE}/opticks \
  -DCMAKE_MODULE_PATH=${OPTICKS_HOME}/cmake/Modules \
  -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=../CaTS-install \
  ../CaTS

make install
cd ../CaTS-install/bin
time ./CaTS -g  simpleLArTPC.gdml -pl 'FTFP_BERT+OPTICAL+STEPLIMIT'  -m time.mac

Only the -g command line variable is mandatory! If you don't specify the macro file interactive mode is assumed:

./CaTS -g simpleLArTPC.gdml -pl 'FTFP_BERT+OPTICAL+STEPLIMIT'

to compile CaTS without Opticks do:

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug   -DWITH_G4OPTICKS=OFF      -DCMAKE_MODULE_PATH="../CaTS/cmake/Modules"   -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=../CaTS-install   ../CaTS

if you don't provide the -pl argument the default physics list configuration: 'FTFP_BERT+OPTICAL+STEPLIMIT' is used

to look at the hit collection and make a few histograms:

./readPhotonHits NewHits_point_Run0.root PhotonHistos.root Det

The 3 arguments here are: name of input file (hits), name of output file for the histograms and the logical Volume that sensitive detector (PhotonSD)is attached to. One can then use root to look at the plots:

root histos.root
   ------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Welcome to ROOT 6.22/06                        https://root.cern |
  | (c) 1995-2020, The ROOT Team; conception: R. Brun, F. Rademakers |
  | Built for linuxx8664gcc on Dec 13 2020, 13:28:00                 |
  | From tags/v6-22-06@v6-22-06                                      |
  | Try '.help', '.demo', '.license', '.credits', '.quit'/'.q'       |
   ------------------------------------------------------------------

root [0] 
Attaching file histos.root as _file0...
(TFile *) 0x559578f76f60
root [1] TBrowser b
(TBrowser &) Name: Browser Title: ROOT Object Browser

For comparison one might want to disable Opticks and use Geant4 to generate and propagate optical photons:

time ./CaTS -g  simpleLArTPC.gdml -pl 'FTFP_BERT+OPTICAL+STEPLIMIT'  -m time_G4.mac