8 papers
The Critical Importance of Software for HEP
HEP Software Foundation, :, Christina Agapopoulou +24
Particle physics has an ambitious and broad global experimental programme for the coming decades. Large investments in building new facilities are already underway or under conside…
The 200 Gbps Challenge: Imagining HL-LHC analysis facilities
Alexander Held, Sam Albin, Garhan Attebury +22
The IRIS-HEP software institute, as a contributor to the broader HEP Python ecosystem, is developing scalable analysis infrastructure and software tools to address the upcoming HL-…
Parsing TTree Formula in Python
Aryan Roy, Jim Pivarski
Uproot can read ROOT files directly in pure Python but cannot (yet) compute expressions in ROOT's TTreeFormula expression language. Despite its popularity, this language has only o…
PyHEP.dev 2024 Workshop Summary Report, August 26-30 2024, Aachen, Germany
Azzah Alshehri, Jan Bürger, Saransh Chopra +28
The second PyHEP.dev workshop, part of the "Python in HEP Developers" series organized by the HEP Software Foundation (HSF), took place in Aachen, Germany, from August 26 to 30, 20…
Describe Data to get Science-Data-Ready Tooling: Awkward as a Target for Kaitai Struct YAML
Manasvi Goyal, Andrea Zonca, Amy Roberts +2
In some fields, scientific data formats differ across experiments due to specialized hardware and data acquisition systems. Researchers need to develop, document, and maintain expe…
The Awkward World of Python and C++
Manasvi Goyal, Ianna Osborne, Jim Pivarski
There are undeniable benefits of binding Python and C++ to take advantage of the best features of both languages. This is especially relevant to the HEP and other scientific commun…