This package implements are generic user interface to popular event generators used in cosmic ray and high-energy particle physics. The purpose of the package is to simplify working with simulations of particle interactions without the need to use Fortran style interfaces to event generators, 'ASCII input cards' and files or C++ dependencies.

Simulate interactions with one of the supported event generators

from impy.definitions import *
from impy.constants import *
from impy.kinematics import EventKinematics
from impy import impy_config

# Define the parameters of the collisions
event_kinematics = EventKinematics(
    ecm=13 * TeV, p1pdg=2212, p2pdg=2212)

# Create an instance of an event generator by passing
# the model name as a string
generator = make_generator_instance(
    interaction_model_by_tag['SIBYLL2.3D'])

# Initialize it
generator.init_generator(event_kinematics)

# Number of events to generate
nevents = 100

for event in generator.event_generator(event_kinematics, nevents):
    event.filter_final_state_charged()
    # do something with event.p_ids, event.eta, event.en, event.pt, etc.
    # these variables are numpy arrays, that can be histogrammed or counted like
    average_pt += 1/float(nevents)*np.mean(event.pt[np.abs(event.p_ids) == 211])

print('Average pT for charged pions {0:4.3f}'.format(average_pt))

The package is (will be) available including pre-compiled binaries. The installation in that case simplifies to (this does not work yet use installation from source):

pip install impy

To build from source (the recursive flag is important to checkout the sub-modules):

git clone --recursive https://github.com/afedynitch/impy
cd impy
make -j<insert number of CPU cores>

The package shall be installed in editable mode with pip install -e . and will behave as an ordinary pip package but using this source build.

Because of the architectural transition and there are many issues on mac, building from source may be a bit complicated. Using brew gcc and python it is possible to build the code by:

CC=gcc-10 CXX=gcc-10 FC=gfortran-10 PYTHON_EXE=/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3 make -jXXX

Replace gcc-10 by your version in brew. The official Mac Python is currently broken due to th transition to Apple Silicon, but it is possible to build with a bit of hacking. But currently I don't use a Mac and cannot debug it.

• Python 2.7 - 3.9
• Linux, Mac OS X, or Windows
• pip
• particletools
• numpy
• scipy
• pyyaml
• pyhepmc-ng

There are two ways to interact with the code.

1. As in the example above, via plain python in scripts or jupyter notebooks. Look at this example.

2. Via a HEPMC output that can be piped in Rivet or other tools supporting the format.

• DPMJET-III 3.0.6
• DPMJET-III 19.1
• EPOS-LHC
• PHOJET 1.12-35
• PHOJET 19.1
• PYTHIA 6
• PYTHIA 8 (not yet bundled)
• QGSJet-01
• QGSJet-II-03
• QGSJet-II-04
• SIBYLL-2.1
• SIBYLL-2.3
• SIBYLL-2.3c
• SIBYLL-2.3d
• SOPHIA (needs update)
• DPMJET-II (also needs update but model deprecated)
• UrQMD 3.4

• Anatoli Fedynitch
• Hans Dembinski
• Sonia El Hadri
• Keito Watanabe

The source code of impy is licensed under the BSD 3-clause license (see LICENSE for detail). The source codes of the event generators are individually licensed under different conditions (see the COPYING files located in the subdirectories).