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.org/x/hep/brio: a toolkit to generate serialization code
• go-hep.org/x/hep/fads: a fast detector simulation toolkit
• go-hep.org/x/hep/fastjet: a jet clustering algorithms package (WIP)
• go-hep.org/x/hep/fit: a fitting function toolkit (WIP)
• go-hep.org/x/hep/fmom: a 4-vectors library
• go-hep.org/x/hep/fwk: a concurrency-enabled framework
• go-hep.org/x/hep/hbook: histograms and n-tuples (WIP)
• go-hep.org/x/hep/hplot: interactive plotting (WIP)
• go-hep.org/x/hep/hepmc: HepMC in pure Go (EDM + I/O)
• go-hep.org/x/hep/hepevt: HEPEVT bindings
• go-hep.org/x/hep/heppdt: HEP particle data table
• go-hep.org/x/hep/lcio: read/write support for LCIO event data model
• go-hep.org/x/hep/lhef: Les Houches Event File format
• go-hep.org/x/hep/rio: go-hep record oriented I/O
• go-hep.org/x/hep/rootio: a pure Go package to for ROOT I/O (WIP)
• go-hep.org/x/hep/sio: basic, low-level, serial I/O used by LCIO
• go-hep.org/x/hep/slha: SUSY Les Houches Accord I/O
• go-hep.org/x/hep/xrootd: XRootD client in pure Go
• go-hep.org/x/cgo/croot: bindings to a subset of ROOT I/O

Installation

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

$ go get go-hep.org/x/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, mainly:

• linux-{amd64,386,arm,arm64,mips,mips32,...}
• darwin-{amd64,386,...}
• windows-{amd64,386,...}
• freebsd-{amd64,386,...}

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 CONTRIBUTORS and AUTHORS list can be consulted on the dedicated license repository.

Support or Contact

Having trouble with go-hep?

Check out the documentation:

• on godoc.org,
• or the tutos.

You can also contact us at go-hep@googlegroups.com and we’ll help you sort it out.

The main mailing list for go-hep is hosted on googlegroups. You can subscribe to the forum without having a GMail account, by just sending a mail to go-hep+subscribe@googlegroups.com with subscribe as a subject.

About

The go-hep logo was made by Tom Ingebretsen from the Noun Project.