Section 4 Passage of particles through material

[Special Guest: Diktys Stratakis, Fermilab]

4.1 Secondary Beam Production

• Lecture 1
  
• secondary beams and their applications
• production of secondaries
• challenges on lattice design with secondaries
• introduction to g4beamline
  - download the code here
  
• examples of using G4beamline
  - bends_test.g4bl file
  - quad_test.g4bl file
  - material.g4bl file

4.2 Energy Loss and Scattering

• Lecture 2
  
• energy loss \(dE/dx\)
  
• Coulomb scattering
  
• spin and polarization
• emittance growth and optics impact
  
• ionization cooling