page_title: Geant4
hierarchical_section_title: Geant4
caption_attribution_description: English: A picture of a Monte-Carlo-Simulation with Geant4. This detector is a single AGATA-detector. The green lines represent gamma radiation from a source with a small opening angle. Deutsch: Ein Bild aus einer Monte-Carlo-Simulation mit Geant4. Es zeigt einen einzelnen AGATA-Detektor, der mit Gamma-Strahlung aus einem kleinen Raumwinkelbereich beschossen wird.
context_page_description: Geant4 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. Its development, maintenance and user support are taken care by the international Geant4 Collaboration. Application areas include high energy physics and nuclear experiments, medical, accelerator and space physics studies. The software is used by a number of research projects around the world.
  The Geant4 software and source code is freely available from the project web site; until version 8.1, no specific software license for its use existed; Geant4 is now provided under the Geant4 Software License.
context_section_description: 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, medical, accelerator and space physics studies.  The software is used by a number of research projects around the world.
  The Geant4 software and source code is freely available from the project web site; until version 8.1 (released June 30, 2006),  no specific software license for its use existed; Geant4 is now provided under the Geant4 Software License.
caption: Visualisation of a simulation. The detector is red and radiation is green.
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