Awesome nuclear physics

A list of useful resources for nuclear physics.

Contents

• Software
  • DAQ packages
  • Sorting codes
  • Analysis
  • Simulation
  • Visualization
  • Various tools
• Websites
  • Laboratories
  • Calculators
  • Charts
  • Tables
  • DAQ documentation
• Books
  • Nuclear structure
  • Nuclear reactions
• Misc.

Software

List of useful software packages used in nuclear physics.

DAQ packages

• Dolosse/GitHub - A modern DAQ packaged based on Apache Kafka. Currently under development (primarily) at iThemba LABS.
• OCLDAQ - DAQ software used at OCL.
• MultiInstanceDataAcquisitionSystem/MIDAS - Acquisition system used in many different labs.
• MIDAS - Acquisition system developed at PSI and TRIUMF.
• NSCLDAQ - Acquisition system developed and used at NSCL.
• Marabou - Acquisition system developed at the University of Munich and used for the readout of Miniball at ISOLDE.

Sorting codes

• MiniballCoulexSort - Sort code for Miniball experiments in the standard Coulex configuration (with or without SPEDE).
• usersort - Software for sorting raw data from the analog DAQ system at OCL.

Analysis

• OMpy - A python package for performing the Oslo Method analysis.
• Oslo Method Software - A set of programs to performing the Oslo Method analysis (old).
• ROOT - De-facto standard tool for analyzing data in particle and nuclear physics.
• Vaex - Out-of-core DataFrames for python. A very powerful package for analyzing gigantic amounts of data. Just as or faster than ROOT.

Simulation

• Geant4 - A toolkit for the simulation of the passage of particles through matter.
• LISE++ - Calculator for transmission and yields of beams. Also includes several useful calculators such as kimematics, fusion evaporation simulations, etc.
• Qkinz - Kinematics calculator for the SiRi array at OCL.
• SRIM - Software for calculating stopping power of ions in matter. The webpage are straight out of the 90's.
• TALYS - Fortran package for running Hauser-Feshbach calculations.

Statistical analysis

• pyMC3 - Package for statistical programming in python. Very simple package for developing Bayesian models.

Visualization

• Chart of nuclides drawer - Open source python program for making nuclear charts
• lvl_builder or GitHub - lvl_builder is a python script to build an energy level scheme that is normally used in the nuclear physics.
• Matplotlib - Matplotlib is a Python 2D plotting library which produces publication quality figures in a variety of hardcopy formats and interactive environments across platforms.
• RadWare - RadWare is a software package for interactive graphical analysis of gamma-ray coincidence data.
• ROOT - A large package for nuclear and particle physics.

Various tools

• TALYS-launcher - Powerful tool for generating TALYS input files for studies of serveral nuclei.

Websites

List of useful websites for nuclear physics.

Calculators

• NRV - Several useful tools such as reaction calculators, etc.
• Catkin - Useful set of calculators such as kinematics, etc. implemented in excel.

Charts

• NuDat - An interactive chart of nuclides from NNDC
• Live Chart of Nuclides - An interactive chart of nuclides hosted by IAEA with search and filter based on various nuclear properties.

Databases

• ENDF - Evaluated neutron reaction cross sections.
• ENSDF - Evaluated Nuclear Structure Data File Search and Retrieval. Also indexes un-evaluated data.
• EXFOR - Experimental Nuclear Reaction Data.
• RIPL-3 - A standard input parameter library.
• STAR - Stopping power tables for alpha's, protons and electrons in various materials.

DAQ documentation

• MultiInstanceDataAcquisitionSystem/MIDAS - Acquisition system used in many different labs.

Laboratories

• ISOLDE/Miniball(Requires CERN username/password) - A wiki with various documentation for the Miniball setup at ISOLDE.

Books

List of great books for nuclear physics

Nuclear structure

Nuclear reactions