Welcome to Pandora!

The high energy physics pattern recognition software.

Our code can be found on github at PandoraPFA.

Stats

• 7 experiments confirmed to be using our code, both liquid argon and linear collider based

• 3 countires providing key contributions

• 10s of millions of simulated neutrinos reconstructed in the last two years alone

• 5.5 fully funded FTE positions provided by the STFC (UK) to support the project

Paper Highlights

• Reconstruction of interactions in the ProtoDUNE-SP detector with Pandora, 2023

• The Pandora multi-algorithm approach to automated pattern recognition of cosmic-ray muon and neutrino events in the MicroBooNE detector, 2018

• The Pandora Software Development Kit for Pattern Recognition, 2015

• The Pandora Particle Flow Algorithm, 2013

• The Pandora Software Development Kit for Particle Flow Calorimetry, 2012

Thesis Highlights

• Henry Lay, Preparing for Precision: Neutral-Current Neutral Pion Production in the Short-Baseline Near Detector, 2025

• Alexandra Moor, Constraining the Neutrino Flux for Oscillation Measurements at MicroBooNE and DUNE, 2024

• Stefano Vergani, Using Cutting Edge Software and Techniques to Model and Measure Experimental Neutrino Data, 2024

• Isobel Mawby, Optimisation of the Search for CP-symmetry Violation at the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, 2023

• Ryan Cross, Data science & neutrino physics: improving the Pandora Reconstruction Framework at the DUNE far detector, 2023

• Edward Tyley, Reconstructing and Selecting Electron Neutrino and Anti-Neutrino Interactions on Argon in the Short-Baseline Near Detector, 2023

• Daniel Heuchel, Particle Flow Studies with Highly Granular Calorimeter Data, 2022

• Andrew Smith, Measurement of the muon-neutrino charged-current single charged-pion cross-section on argon with the MicroBooNE detector, 2021

• Jack Weston, Neutrino interaction vertex reconstruction and particle identification in the MicroBooNE detector, 2021

• Dominic Barker, Developments Towards a νe CC Sterile Appearance Sensitivity in the Short-Baseline Neutrino Programme, 2020

• Joris de Vries, Identifying Muon Neutrino Charged-Current Interactions in the MicroBooNE Detector, 2019

• Steven Green, Calorimetry at a Future Linear Collider, 2017

• Boruo Xu, Detectors and Physics at a Future Linear Collider, 2017