NPAT

NPAT (nuclear physics analysis tools) is a python toolkit developed to aid in the analysis of experimental nuclear data.

The primary application for NPAT is activation analysis, with specific utilities developed for stacked-target, charged-particle activation analysis. However, the convenient python interface to nuclear decay data and a range of cross section libraries makes NPAT more generally useful in the nuclear sciences.

Features

NPAT features the following classes to aid in data analysis:

• Spectrum - Peak fitting for HPGe detector data.
• Calibration - Energy & efficiency calibration tool (for HPGe detectors).
• Ziegler - Stacked-target energy loss characterization.
• DecayChain - General purpose Bateman equation solver.
• Isotope - Isotopic and decay data.
• Reaction - Cross sections from multiple libraries.
• Library - Tool for searching and retrieving cross sections from multiple libraries.

More detail can be found in the User's Guide and the API.

Quick Install

NPAT is available through the Python Package index, which allows installation using Python's standard command line utility pip. Assuming Python and Pip are installed already, you can install NPAT with the command:

pip install --user npat

or:

python -m pip install --user npat

Detailed installation instructions and troubleshooting can be found in the NPAT documentation.