CMD + K

vgm

Community

Virtual Geometry Model for HEP detector simulation

Installation

To install this package, run one of the following:

Conda
$conda install conda-forge::vgm

Usage Tracking

5.4
1 / 8 versions selected
Downloads (Last 6 months): 0

Description

The Virtual Geometry Model (VGM) provides a generic geometry model and bidirectional conversion between Geant4 and ROOT TGeo geometry representations, plus XML import / export. It allows the same detector description to be used across both transport engines and is part of the vmc-project toolkit.

Build dependency of geant4-vmc and downstream HEP experiment frameworks (ALICE, FairRoot, SHiP).

About

Summary

Virtual Geometry Model for HEP detector simulation

Last Updated

Jun 11, 2026 at 14:40

License

GPL-3.0-only

Supported Platforms

macOS-64
linux-64