A Geant4 (https://github.com/Geant4/geant4) simulation toolkit for silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs).

Further information can be found here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2015.01.067

The code has been developed to

• simulate SiPMs in (existing) Geant4 detector simulations
• provide an easy to setup phenomenological model
• be driven by input parameters which can be obtained from datasheets or in the laboratory
• make reliable predictions of the signal of the SiPM over the complete dynamic range

Requirements

• Geant4 (4.10 or newer, https://github.com/Geant4/geant4)
• Boost (1.50.0 or newer, http://www.boost.org/)

Optional

• Sqlite3 (https://sqlite.org/)
• ROOT (5.34 or newer, https://root.cern.ch)

The build process has been tested with Ubuntu 15.04 and Scientific Linux 6.

Clone the code

git clone https://github.com/ntim/g4sipm.git source
cd source

Initialize submodules Googletest and Jansson

git submodule init
git submodule update

Configure the build with CMake

cd ../
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../source

Finally, start the build process

make

The documentation is available at http://g4sipm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html.

To build the documentation, invoke

make docs