Kassiopeia particle-tracking and field simulation (KATRIN)
Kassiopeia: field computation and charged-particle tracking framework (KATRIN, Project 8)
C++ framework for electromagnetic field computation and charged-particle tracking (generators, trajectories, interactions, detection) developed for the KATRIN tritium beta spectrometer and used by Project 8.
Get it
| Location | Role | Host | Formats | Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://github.com/KATRIN-Experiment/Kassiopeia | primary | GitHub | ||
| https://katrin-experiment.github.io/Kassiopeia/index.html | mirror | Institutional / collaboration web page | ||
| https://github.com/project8/Kassiopeia | mirror | GitHub |
Metadata
| Licence | Proprietary / custom terms as in repo (custom, NOASSERTION in GitHub API) |
|---|---|
| Access | Open |
| Experiments | KATRIN, Project 8 |
| Purpose | Detector simulation |
| Development | unknown |
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Papers
- arXiv:1612.00262 (describes)
Curation
| Status | Curated (candidate: harvested, not reviewed · curated: reviewed metadata · verified: resource downloaded and checked against its paper) |
|---|---|
| Added | 2026-10-23 |
| Curator notes | • found by targeted web search; verified: GitHub API metadata and homepage link; actively maintained (2026). • Simulation tool, not the KATRIN spectrum-fit software (which is not public). |