17–24 Jul 2024
Prague
Europe/Prague timezone

New ways to access PDG data

20 Jul 2024, 15:21
17m
Club A

Club A

Parallel session talk 14. Computing, AI and Data Handling Computing and Data handling

Speaker

Juerg Beringer (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL))

Description

In recent years, the data published by the Particle Data Group (PDG) in the Review of Particle Physics has primarily been consulted on the PDG web pages and in pdgLive, or downloaded in the form of PDF files. A new set of tools (PDG API) makes PDG data easily accessible in machine-readable format and includes a REST API, downloadable database files containing the PDG data, and an associated Python package. To find desired information, users either navigate to the corresponding review article or section in particle listings or summary tables on the web, use the new API, or rely on a Google-based search of the PDG website. Large Language Models (LLM) combined with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) are expected to enhance the searching of PDG information and to provide fine-grained accurate results. We will present the status of the new PDG API, give examples of its use, and discuss first results from RAG-based searching of PDG data.

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Author

Juerg Beringer (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL))

Presentation materials