{
  "access": "open",
  "card": {
    "intended_use": "Sensitivity and physics-reach studies with parametrised detectors (AEDL); new-physics engines via user-defined probabilities.",
    "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.",
    "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.",
    "summary": "The standard tool for long-baseline and reactor sensitivity studies.",
    "validation": "Not yet compared with Newtrinos."
  },
  "cite_as": ["doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2005.01.003", "doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2007.05.004"],
  "creators": [
    {
      "name": "Patrick Huber"
    },
    {
      "name": "Manfred Lindner"
    },
    {
      "name": "Walter Winter"
    },
    {
      "name": "Joachim Kopp"
    },
    {
      "name": "Mark Rolinec"
    }
  ],
  "curation": {
    "added": "2026-10-23",
    "quality_notes": ["licence: GLoBES is believed to be GPL; landing page does not state it — check the tarball before setting"],
    "source": "manual",
    "status": "curated"
  },
  "description": "Simulates neutrino oscillation experiments described in the Abstract Experiment Definition Language (AEDL):\nrates, χ² with systematics, correlations and degeneracies. Widely used for sensitivity studies; many experiment\ndefinitions (AEDL files) are distributed with it or by third parties.",
  "distributions": [
    {
      "formats": ["source-code"],
      "host": "institutional",
      "role": "primary",
      "url": "https://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/personalhomes/globes/"
    }
  ],
  "id": "globes",
  "license": "unknown",
  "references": [
    {
      "citation": "Huber, Lindner, Winter, Comput. Phys. Commun. 167, 195 (2005)",
      "doi": "10.1016/j.cpc.2005.01.003",
      "relation": "describes"
    },
    {
      "citation": "Huber, Kopp, Lindner, Rolinec, Winter, Comput. Phys. Commun. 177, 432 (2007) — GLoBES 3",
      "doi": "10.1016/j.cpc.2007.05.004",
      "relation": "describes"
    }
  ],
  "short": "GLoBES: C library + AEDL language for simulating long-baseline and reactor experiments and their sensitivities",
  "software": {
    "dependencies": ["GSL"],
    "development_status": "maintained",
    "interfaces": ["library", "config-files"],
    "languages": ["C"],
    "purposes": ["sensitivity", "oscillation-probability"],
    "repository": "https://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/personalhomes/globes/"
  },
  "sources": ["accelerator", "reactor"],
  "title": "GLoBES — General Long Baseline Experiment Simulator",
  "topics": ["oscillation", "sterile", "nsi"],
  "type": "software",
  "url_landing": "https://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/personalhomes/globes/",
  "version": "3.0"
}