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  "access": "open",
  "channels": ["ccqe", "nc"],
  "cite_as": ["doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.107.033007"],
  "creators": [
    {
      "name": "Joshua Isaacson"
    },
    {
      "name": "William I. Jay"
    },
    {
      "name": "Alessandro Lovato"
    },
    {
      "name": "Pedro A. N. Machado"
    },
    {
      "name": "Noemi Rocco"
    }
  ],
  "curation": {
    "added": "2026-10-23",
    "source": "manual (via ADoNIS)",
    "status": "curated"
  },
  "date_published": "2018-10-05",
  "date_updated": "2026-10-22",
  "description": "Event generator for lepton–nucleus scattering that combines ab-initio-inspired nuclear models (spectral functions)\nwith a factorised treatment of the hard interaction and a semi-classical intranuclear cascade, validated on\nelectron scattering and applied to neutrino interactions.",
  "distributions": [
    {
      "formats": ["source-code"],
      "host": "github",
      "role": "primary",
      "url": "https://github.com/AchillesGen/Achilles"
    }
  ],
  "id": "achilles",
  "license": "proprietary",
  "license_notes": "licence file in the repository is not a standard SPDX licence (GitHub: NOASSERTION)",
  "owner": {
    "kind": "organization",
    "name": "AchillesGen"
  },
  "references": [
    {
      "arxiv": "2205.06378",
      "citation": "Isaacson, Jay, Lovato, Machado, Rocco, Phys. Rev. D 107, 033007 (2023)",
      "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevD.107.033007",
      "relation": "describes"
    }
  ],
  "short": "ACHILLES: event generator for electron– and neutrino–nucleus scattering with spectral functions and cascade",
  "software": {
    "development_status": "active",
    "interfaces": ["cli", "library"],
    "languages": ["C++"],
    "purposes": ["event-generator", "nuclear-model"],
    "repository": "https://github.com/AchillesGen/Achilles"
  },
  "sources": ["accelerator"],
  "title": "ACHILLES: A CHIcagoLand Lepton Event Simulator",
  "topics": ["cross-section", "nuclear-model"],
  "type": "software",
  "url_landing": "https://github.com/AchillesGen/Achilles"
}