About

The Scikit-HEP project is a community-driven and community-oriented project with the aim of providing Particle Physics at large with a Python package containing core and common tools.

The project started in Autumn 2016 and is presently being prepared for an initial beta release.

The software package defines a set of five pillars, which are seen to embrace all major topics involved in a physicist’s work. These are:

  • Datasets: data in various sources, such as ROOT, Numpy/Pandas, databases, wrapped in a common interface.
  • Aggregations: e.g. histograms that summarize or project a dataset.
  • Modeling: data models and fitting utilities.
  • Simulation: wrappers for Monte Carlo engines and other generators of simulated data.
  • Visualization: interface to graphics engines, from ROOT and Matplotlib to maybe even d3 or plot.ly.

Core team

Project startup team:

  • Vanya Belyaev (ITEP, Moscow - LHCb)
  • Noel Dawe (University of Melbourne - ATLAS)
  • David Lange (Princeton University - CMS, DIANA)
  • Sasha Mazurov (University of Birmingham - LHCb)
  • Jim Pivarski (Princeton University - CMS, DIANA)
  • Eduardo Rodrigues (University of Cincinnati - DIANA, LHCb)

Experiment contact persons

Contact persons are being identified for “each” experiment. It is expected that contact persons get involved with the project in 3 ways:

  • Act as a bridge between the Scikit-HEP team and the experiment.
  • Provide feedback on the expectations the experiment (analysts) have.
  • Provide feedback on Scikit-HEP directions, code functionality and alike.

The current list of contact persons is the following:

Experiment Name(s)
Belle II Karim Trabelsi, Nils Braun
CMS Valentin Kuznetsov
DUNE Dorota Stefan, Robert Sulej
LHCb Matthieu Marinangeli
Mu2e Brian Pollack

Contributors

Every project (sub)package is under the responsibility of a coordinator/maintainer. The list will be provided in due time.

We look forward to contributions from the community! Please refer to the link contributing to Scikit-HEP for details on how to get involved.

Other credits

  • Thank you to Alex Pearce for designing the starting website.

Licensing

The software package is under a BSD 3-clause license.