Physics Tools Developed at SLAC

SLAC 8 August 2002

Physics Analysis and Simulation Tools

Following are some physics simulation and analysis tools developed at SLAC or by SLAC collaborators.
GISMO
C++ toolkit for doing detector simulation and event reconstruction.
EGS
A general purpose package for the Monte Carlo simulation of the coupled transport of electrons and photons in an arbitrary geometry.
HIPPODRAW
A package for 'tuple viewing and manipulation.
MIDAS, HANDYPAK, JAZELLE, IDA
An Interactive Data Analysis Package, Histogramming and Display Package and Jazelle data management system used by SLD

Other Physics-Related Software Collections

CERNLIB and Anaphe
The CERN program library including GEANT3, PAW and HBOOK, and the CERNLIB successor, Anaphe.
Geant4
The CERN Geant4 detector simulation toolkit.
FreeHEP
Collection of software and information about software which is useful in high energy physics and related fields.
FermiTools
Software tools developed at Fermilab.
Maple
The symbolic computer algebra system.

Tony Johnson