23 October 2025
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone
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OpenPHIGS: How an enthusiastic game developer accidentially helped to save LEP data

23 Oct 2025, 16:10
7m
503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)

503/1-001 - Council Chamber

CERN

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Speaker

Dr Ulrich Schwickerath (CERN)

Description

Event displays are an excellent tool to visualise HEP events, for physicist but also for outreach. In the old days,these 3d visualisation tools were a challenge, and thus some experiments decided to use a commercial closed source back-end solution. This talk tells the story of how a little open source project of an enthusiastic game developer
helped to resurrect these useful tools for two of the LEP experiments.

Project web page https://github.com/cern/openphigs

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