SPARKX

Software Package for Analyzing Relativistic Kinematics in Collision eXperiments

This package is designed to assist users of the SMASH and JETSCAPE/X-SCAPE codes to analyze the output of the simulation data. It contains multiple classes to read in the simulation outputs in Oscar2013/Oscar2013Extended/Oscar2013Extended_IC/Oscar2013Extended_Photons/ASCII format or the hadron/parton output of JETSCAPE/X-SCAPE.

Attribution and Citation

If you use SPARKX in your research, please cite the following reference:

@article{Sass:2025opk,
    author = {Sass, Nils and Roch, Hendrik and G{\"o}tz, Niklas and Krupczak, Renata and Rosenkvist, Carl B.},
    title = "{SPARKX: a software package for analyzing relativistic kinematics in collision experiments}",
    eprint = "2503.09415",
    archivePrefix = "arXiv",
    primaryClass = "physics.data-an",
    doi = "10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-15258-8",
    journal = "Eur. Phys. J. C",
    volume = "86",
    number = "1",
    pages = "27",
    year = "2026"
}

and the software itself (with the corresponding version number) where you can find the BibTeX entry on Zenodo: smash-transport/sparkx