GLoBES — General Long Baseline Experiment Simulator
GLoBES: C library + AEDL language for simulating long-baseline and reactor experiments and their sensitivities
Simulates neutrino oscillation experiments described in the Abstract Experiment Definition Language (AEDL): rates, χ² with systematics, correlations and degeneracies. Widely used for sensitivity studies; many experiment definitions (AEDL files) are distributed with it or by third parties.
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| Summary | The standard tool for long-baseline and reactor sensitivity studies. |
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| Intended use | Sensitivity and physics-reach studies with parametrised detectors (AEDL); new-physics engines via user-defined probabilities. |
| Out-of-scope use | Fits to real data with full experimental systematics; atmospheric neutrinos (no zenith integration). |
| Physics assumptions | Detector response by migration matrices or Gaussian smearing; systematics as normalisation/tilt pulls; constant-density layers for matter. |
| Validation | Not yet compared with Newtrinos. |
| Known limitations | Licence not stated on the landing page (to be checked in the tarball); AEDL files of different authors vary in quality and provenance. |
| Maintenance | Version 3.0 is the latest stable release; development pace low. |
Get it
| Location | Role | Host | Formats | Size |
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| https://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/personalhomes/globes/ | primary | Institutional / collaboration web page | Source code |
Metadata
| Creators | Patrick Huber; Manfred Lindner; Walter Winter; Joachim Kopp; Mark Rolinec |
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| Version | 3.0 |
| Licence | Unknown |
| Access | Open |
| Languages | C |
| Purpose | Sensitivity / experiment simulation, Oscillation probabilities |
| Dependencies | GSL |
| Development | maintained |
Used by
- Software Event-rate based degeneracy finder for GLoBES (degfinder)
- Software FaSE_GLoBES
- Data sets GLoBES pre-defined AEDL experiment library
- Software GLoBES-EFT
- Software GLoBESfit
- Software MonteCUBES: MCMC sampler plugin for GLoBES
- Software nu-osc: GLoBES-based framework for sensitivity studies and global fits (incl. sterile neutrinos)
- Software SNOwGLoBES
- Software snu: sterile neutrino and NSI oscillation engine for GLoBES
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Papers
- Huber, Lindner, Winter, Comput. Phys. Commun. 167, 195 (2005) · doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2005.01.003 (describes)
- Huber, Kopp, Lindner, Rolinec, Winter, Comput. Phys. Commun. 177, 432 (2007) — GLoBES 3 · doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2007.05.004 (describes)
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Curation
| Status | Curated (candidate: harvested, not reviewed · curated: reviewed metadata · verified: resource downloaded and checked against its paper) |
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| Added | 2026-10-23 |
| Curator notes | • licence: GLoBES is believed to be GPL; landing page does not state it — check the tarball before setting |