# About

The Scikit-HEP project is a community-driven and community-oriented project with the aim of providing Particle Physics at large with a Python package containing core and common tools.

The project started in Autumn 2016 and is presently being prepared for an initial beta release.

The software package defines a set of five pillars, which are seen to embrace all major topics involved in a physicist’s work. These are:

> - Datasets: data in various sources, such as ROOT, Numpy/Pandas, databases, wrapped in a common interface.
> - Aggregations: e.g. histograms that summarize or project a dataset.
> - Modeling: data models and fitting utilities.
> - Simulation: wrappers for Monte Carlo engines and other generators of simulated data.
> - Visualization: interface to graphics engines, from ROOT and Matplotlib to maybe even d3 or plot.ly.

## Core team

Project startup team:

> - Vanya Belyaev (ITEP, Moscow - LHCb)
> - Noel Dawe (University of Melbourne - ATLAS)
> - David Lange (Princeton University - CMS, DIANA)
> - Sasha Mazurov (University of Birmingham - LHCb)
> - Jim Pivarski (Princeton University - CMS, DIANA)
> - Eduardo Rodrigues (University of Cincinnati - DIANA, LHCb)

## Experiment contact persons

Contact persons are being identified for “each” experiment. It is expected that contact persons get involved with the project in 3 ways:

> - Act as a bridge between the Scikit-HEP team and the experiment.
> - Provide feedback on the expectations the experiment (analysts) have.
> - Provide feedback on Scikit-HEP directions, code functionality and alike.

The current list of contact persons is the following:

> Experiment | Name(s)
> --- | ---
> Belle II | Karim Trabelsi, Nils Braun
> CMS | Valentin Kuznetsov
> DUNE | Dorota Stefan, Robert Sulej
> LHCb | Matthieu Marinangeli
> Mu2e | Brian Pollack

## Contributors

Every project (sub)package is under the responsibility of a coordinator/maintainer. The list will be provided in due time.

We look forward to contributions from the community! Please refer to the link contributing to Scikit-HEP for details on how to get involved.

### Other credits

- Thank you to Alex Pearce for designing the starting website.

## Licensing

The software package is under a BSD 3-clause license.