go-hep

Welcome to go-hep.

go-hep is a set of libraries and applications allowing High Energy Physicists to write efficient analysis code in the Go programming language.

Go brings the fast edit-compile-run cycle that interpreted language users know and the runtime efficiency that compiled languages users expect. go-hep provides the needed HEP oriented packages on top of this concurrency-enabled language.

go-hep currently sports the following packages:

• go-hep/fads: a fast detector simulation toolkit
• go-hep/fastjet: a jet clustering algorithms package (WIP)
• go-hep/fmom: a 4-vectors library
• go-hep/fwk: a concurrency-enabled framework
• go-hep/hbook: histograms and n-tuples (WIP)
• go-hep/hplot: interactive plotting (WIP)
• go-hep/hepmc: HepMC in pure Go (EDM + I/O)
• go-hep/hepevt: HEPEVT bindings
• go-hep/heppdt: HEP particle data table
• go-hep/lhef: Les Houches Event File format
• go-hep/croot: bindings to a subset of ROOT I/O
• go-hep/rio: go-hep record oriented I/O
• go-hep/sio: LCIO I/O
• go-hep/slha: SUSY Les Houches Accord I/O

Installation

go-hep packages are installable via the go get command:

$ go get github.com/go-hep/fads

Just select the package you are interested in and go get will take care of fetching, building and installing it, as well as its dependencies, recursively.

go-hep is available on all Go supported platforms:

• linux-{amd64,386,arm}
• darwin-{amd64,386}
• windows-{amd64,386}
• freebsd-{amd64,386,arm}

License

All go-hep code is released under a BSD-3 license.

Authors and Contributors

go-hep was primarily written by Sebastien Binet (@sbinet). The complete AUTHORS and CONTRIBUTORS list can be consulted on the dedicated license repository.

Support or Contact

Having trouble with go-hep?
Check out the documentation or contact us at go-hep@googlegroups.com and we’ll help you sort it out.