Hitchhiker's guide to HEP Software Galaxy: Particle Physics Toolkit

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Description

An easy to understand site which contains links to useful tools, softwares and techniques for data analysis. It will contain the advantages of each of the tools and what they are normally used for. The goal of the site is to make downloading, search for documentation and general techniques easier so that people can focus more on the physics/analysis.

Goals of the project
  • Hyperlinks to the Downloads (for Windows, Mac, etc.) 
  • Seamless presentation of the essential documentation for the different softwares
  • Search Techniques 
Skills being sought
  • Web Programming 
  • Experience with the following: ROOT, SHERPA, GEANT4, MadGraph, Pythia...
  • C++ and Python
  • Github
  • Visual Arts 
  • Ideally, different experiments should be well-represented (CMS, ATLAS, LHCb, ALICE and more...) 
References and background material

None

Prerequisites: 
Programming Skills

Contacts
Uzziel Perez: uzzie.perez@cern.ch