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1 Introduction

A good understanding of the STAR performance requires many GEANT-based simulations of the detector and its environment.

A fast and reliable way to implement these systems in GSTAR is to use a dedicated geant parser (Fortran preprocessor) which is supported by an Advanced Geant Interface library called AgSTAR . Maintaining the GEANT specific tables of materials, volumes, hits descriptions, etc and insuring the internal consistency of most of the actual parameters of the GEANT routines, it significantly reduces the amount of information the user needs to worry about and improves the robustness of the program. Here we describe the main rules and features of this program.
 


William J. Llope

Thu Aug 15 17:05:49 EDT 1996