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Recommended publications for citing

For dgcode:
T Kittelmann et al 2014 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 513 022017
DOI 10.1088/1742-6596/513/2/022017
K Kanaki, T Kittelmann, et al 2018 Physica B, Condens. Matter 551 386–389
DOI 10.1016/j.physb.2018.03.025
For NCrystal:
X.-X. Cai and T. Kittelmann, Comp. Phys. Commun 246 (2020) 106851,
DOI 10.1016/j.cpc.2019.07.015
For MCPL:
T. Kittelmann, et al., Comp. Phys. Commun 218 (2017) 17-42
DOI 10.1016/j.cpc.2017.04.012

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History

The project originated in the coding and simulation framework “dgbuild”/”dgcode” which was developed by Thomas Kittelmann in the Detector Group at the European Spallation Source ERIC since 2012. This work was supported in part by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 676548 (the BrightnESS project).

Around 2023 the code was refactored, rebranded, cleaned up, and released under the current open source license by Thomas Kittelmann and Milan Klausz. The result is two open source projects, the build system (“simplebuild”) and the Geant4-based simulation framework implemented as a set of simplebuild packages (“simplebuild-dgcode”).

The main active developers are currently:

  • Thomas Kittelmann (DMSC, European Spallation Source ERIC). Main developer.

  • Milan Klausz (HUN-REN Centre for Energy Research). Developer and CI expert.

Historically several other people also contributed to the development of the code. Of particular note is the work and support by Kalliopi Kanaki (former ESS ERIC, now IAEA), Xiao Xiao Cai (former DTU, now CSNS) and Richard Hall-Wilton (former ESS ERIC, now FDK-SD). Although a lot of the technical details and names changed in the meantime, this old tutorial from 2015 might still be interesting for those interested in the history of dgcode.