Ants3 toolkit: Front-end for Geant4 with interactive GUI and Python scripting

IF 3.4 2区物理与天体物理 Q1 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS

Computer Physics Communications Pub Date : 2025-09-15 DOI:10.1016/j.cpc.2025.109869

A. Morozov, L.M.S. Margato, G. Canezin, J. Gonzalez

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Abstract

Ants3 is a toolkit that serves as a front-end for particle simulations in Geant4 and offers a custom simulator for optical photons. It features a fully interactive Graphical User Interface and an extensive scripting system based on general-purpose scripting languages (Python and JavaScript). Ants3 covers the entire detector simulation/optimization cycle, providing an intuitive approach for configuration of the geometry and simulation conditions, the possibility to automatically distribute workload over local and network resources, and giving a suite of versatile tools based on CERN ROOT for the analysis of the results. The intended application area is the development of new detectors and readout methods. The toolkit has been designed to be user-friendly for those with little experience in simulations and programming.

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Ants3工具包：用于Geant4的前端，带有交互式GUI和Python脚本

Ants3是一个工具包，作为Geant4中粒子模拟的前端，并提供了一个自定义的光子模拟器。它具有完全交互式的图形用户界面和基于通用脚本语言（Python和JavaScript）的广泛脚本系统。Ants3涵盖了整个探测器模拟/优化周期，提供了一种直观的方法来配置几何和模拟条件，在本地和网络资源上自动分配工作负载的可能性，并提供了一套基于CERN ROOT的多功能工具来分析结果。预期的应用领域是开发新的检测器和读出方法。该工具包被设计为对那些在模拟和编程方面缺乏经验的用户友好。

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Computer Physics Communications 物理-计算机：跨学科应用

CiteScore

12.10

自引率

3.20%

发文量

287

审稿时长

5.3 months

期刊介绍： The focus of CPC is on contemporary computational methods and techniques and their implementation, the effectiveness of which will normally be evidenced by the author(s) within the context of a substantive problem in physics. Within this setting CPC publishes two types of paper. Computer Programs in Physics (CPiP) These papers describe significant computer programs to be archived in the CPC Program Library which is held in the Mendeley Data repository. The submitted software must be covered by an approved open source licence. Papers and associated computer programs that address a problem of contemporary interest in physics that cannot be solved by current software are particularly encouraged. Computational Physics Papers (CP) These are research papers in, but are not limited to, the following themes across computational physics and related disciplines. mathematical and numerical methods and algorithms; computational models including those associated with the design, control and analysis of experiments; and algebraic computation. Each will normally include software implementation and performance details. The software implementation should, ideally, be available via GitHub, Zenodo or an institutional repository.In addition, research papers on the impact of advanced computer architecture and special purpose computers on computing in the physical sciences and software topics related to, and of importance in, the physical sciences may be considered.