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particle - Release 0.25.4

Particle class and submodules:
- Fixed the creation of programmatic names for nuclei when the nucleus names end with a 0.
- Minor fix for the Higgs spin.
PDGID class method and related standalone functions:
- Little improvement to the helper function _digit.
CI and tests:
- Updates to pre-commit hooks and CI YAML files.

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Published by eduardo-rodrigues 9 months ago

particle - Release 0.25.3

CI and tests:
- Updates to pre-commit hooks and CI YAML files.

- Python
Published by eduardo-rodrigues 11 months ago

particle - Version 0.25.2

Miscellaneous:
- Added support for Python 3.13.
- Added attestations.
CI and tests:
- Faster CI with uv.
- Updates to pre-commit hooks and CI YAML files.

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Published by eduardo-rodrigues over 1 year ago

particle - Version 0.25.1

Particle class and submodules:
- Ensure the proton and neutron are correctly handled whether using the particle representation (PDG IDs 2212 and 2112) or their representation as a nucleus.
Data files:
- Added internal quantum numbers for several mesons.
CI and tests:
- Codecov back working again - required tokens.
- Fix for ZipApp.
- Updates to pre-commit hooks and CI YAML files.

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Published by eduardo-rodrigues over 1 year ago

particle - Version 0.25.0

Data files:
- Added the 2024 PDG data table file, now default.
- Version 14 of package CSV data files:
  - Since PDG 2024 information now the default.
- Removed superseded data files from 2021.
Particle class and submodules:
- Minor fix in conversion to particle names in HTML.
CI and tests:
- Use the PyPI trusted publisher.
- Updates to pre-commit hooks and CI YAML files.

- Python
Published by eduardo-rodrigues over 1 year ago

particle - Version 0.24.0

Particle class and submodules:
- Removed deprecated methods.
Data files:
- Fixed typo in the LaTeX name of Lambda(1405).
Miscellaneous:
- Added support for Python 3.12 and dropped support for Python 3.7.
- Started using AllContributors to acknowledge contributions explicitly.
CI and tests:
- Updates to pre-commit hooks and CI YAML files.
- Added support for pixi.

- Python
Published by eduardo-rodrigues almost 2 years ago

particle - Version 0.23.1

Miscellaneous:
- Modernisation of Ruff configuration in pyproject.toml.
CI and tests:
- Updates to pre-commit hooks and CI YAML files.

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Published by eduardo-rodrigues about 2 years ago

particle - Version 0.23.0

Data files:
- Added the 2023 PDG data table file, now default.
- Version 13 of package CSV data files:
  - Since PDG 2023 information now the default.
- Removed superseded data files from 2018-2020.
Tests:
- Updates to pre-commit hooks.

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Published by eduardo-rodrigues over 2 years ago

particle - Version 0.22.1

Particle class and submodules:
- Added support for providing spin for SUSY particles, with tests.
Tests:
- Test added for particles that should be assigned None masses.
- Updates to pre-commit hooks.

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Published by eduardo-rodrigues over 2 years ago

particle - Version 0.22.0

Particle class and submodules:
- Deprecated functions only used to find particles by AmpGen style of names. Functionality moved to the DecayLanguage package, the only place where it is needed.
Data CSV files:
- Version 12 of package data files made default:
- Information on nuclei updated based on masses taken from package periodictable version 1.6.1.
- Several Corsika7 IDs corrected.
- Otherwise same as version 11 files.
Miscellaneous:
- Moved to Ruff for configuration.
Documentation:
- Various fixes in docstrings, notably because of particle property updates.
- README: minor updates/fixes.
Tests:
- Doctests run separately in the CI.
- Updates to pre-commit hooks.

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Published by eduardo-rodrigues almost 3 years ago

particle - Version 0.21.2

Classes for MC particle identification codes and converters:
- Improvements and fixes in Corsika7 module.
- Full test coverage for Corsika7 module.
- Better test coverage for PDG ID related functions.
Tests:
- Updates to pre-commit hooks.

- Python
Published by eduardo-rodrigues about 3 years ago

particle - Version 0.21.1

Particle class and submodules:
- Better test coverage.
PDGID class method and related standalone functions:
- Minor code simplifications.
- Significant improvements to test coverage.
Documentation:
- README: info added on how to create user-defined particles.
Tests:
- Various improvements to the CI.
- Updates to pre-commit hooks and CI YAML files.

- Python
Published by eduardo-rodrigues about 3 years ago

particle - Version 0.21.0

Data files:
- Added the 2022 PDG data table file, now default.
- Version 11 of package CSV data files:
  - Since PDG 2022 information now the default.
Classes for MC particle identification codes and converters:
- New Corsika7ID class.
- New Corsika72PDGIDBiMap bi-directional map between PDG and Corsika7 IDs.
Particle class, PDGID like classes and related standalone functions:
- New method Particle.from_nucleus().
- Extra documentation.
Miscellaneous:
- Added a CITATION.cff file.
- Moved over to using hatchling.
- Added support for Python 3.11 and dropped support for Python 3.6.
- Adapted to Pandas 1.5 series (removal of deprecation warnings).
Documentation:
- Minor README updates.
Tests:
- Updates to pre-commit hooks and CI YAML files.
- Various improvements to the CI.

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Published by henryiii over 3 years ago

particle - Version 0.20.1

Particle class:
- More tests of PDGID functions for special particles.
Experiment-specific modules:
- particle.lhcb simplified.
Miscellaneous:
- Minor cleanup and updates.
Tests:
- Now included in the SDist (MANIFEST.in updated).
- Pre-commit hooks updated.

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Published by eduardo-rodrigues almost 4 years ago

particle - Version 0.20.0

First Python 3 (3.6+) only version.

Particle class:
- Deprecated method find method removed. Use findall or finditer instead.
- HTML Greek letters in particle names use hex code rather than entity name.
PDGID class method and related standalone functions:
- Deprecated function is_composite_quark_or_lepton removed. Use is_excited_quark_or_lepton instead.
Documentation:
- README updated with info on the new experiment-specific module particle.lhcb.
Miscellaneous:
- Support for Python 2 and Python 3.5 dropped.
- Full static typing implemented.
Tests:
- Pre-commit hooks updated.

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Published by eduardo-rodrigues about 4 years ago

particle - Version 0.16.3

Particle class:
- New class method Particle.from_name.
New experiment-specific module:
- Module particle.lhcb with functions and mappings to deal with particle names in use in LHCb software.
- Script admin/dump_pdgid_to_lhcb.py to generate the PDGID <-> LHCb name mapping (CSV file).
Tests:
- Updated pre-commit hooks.

- Python
Published by eduardo-rodrigues about 4 years ago

particle - Version 0.16.2

Particle class:
- Faster Particle.from_pdgid.
- Better coverage of documentation for Particle methods, especially for newest method finditer.
- Do not expose converters on high-level imports. Usage is hence from particle.converters import ....
Tests:
- Resurrected tests on "all" platforms - Linux, macOS and Windows.
- Performance benchmark tests added for loading of particle property CSV files.
- Updated pre-commit hooks.
Miscellaneous:
- Enforced Black formatting in notebooks.

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Published by eduardo-rodrigues over 4 years ago

particle - Version 0.16.1

Fixed a regression with the import time being unreasonably slow.
Restore Python 3.5 support (no benefit to drop until 2.7 is dropped)

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Published by henryiii over 4 years ago

particle - Version 0.16.0

Particle class:
- Added finditer, which returns an iterator instead of a complete list like findall.
- Method find deprecated. It will be removed from version 0.17.0 onwards. Please use the more general findall method, or the new finditer method.
PDGID class:
- New functions is_sm_lepton, is_sm_quark and is_excited_quark_or_lepton for qualification of PDG IDs.
- is_composite_quark_or_lepton deprecated in favour of better named is_excited_quark_or_lepton.
- is_lepton fixed to match the behaviour of the related is_quark, i.e. now excited leptons are not considered leptons (only SM and 4th generation leptons).
- Improvements to documentation.
- Test suite enhanced accordingly.
Data files:
- Added the 2021 PDG data table .mcd file, now default.
- Version 10 of package CSV data files:
  - Since PDG 2021 information now the default.
- Lifetimes of neutrinos set to infinity.
- Check added for duplicate entries in .mcd PDG data files.
Tests:
- Tests of coverage added back, using Codecov on GHAs.
- CI enhanced, e.g. adding codespell, isort and flake8 checks tp pre-commit hooks.
Miscellaneous:
- Support for Python 3.10 added.
- Several FutureWarning warnings fixed.
- Code modernisation.

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Published by eduardo-rodrigues over 4 years ago

particle - Version 0.15.1

Particle class:
- Bug fix in Particle.to_dict.
Tests:
- CI improvements.
- Azure pipelines removed since superseded by GitHub Actions.
Miscellaneous:
- Code improvements thanks to Sourcery.
- Clean-up of unnecessary files/code.

- Python
Published by eduardo-rodrigues over 4 years ago

particle - Version 0.15.0

Particle class:
- Literals now defined for all particles in the loaded "database" CSV file, excluding nuclei.
- Defined and/or fixed the programmatic names for diquarks and SUSY particles.
Data CSV files:
- Version 9 of package data files, with all antiparticle bars done with \overline instead of \bar.
Miscellaneous:
- Added latex_name_unicode() function to convert in particle names in LaTeX all greek letters by their unicode.
- Added a .zenodo.json file to provide enhanced metadata for Zenodo.
- CI updates for newer versions of Black and pre-commit.

- Python
Published by eduardo-rodrigues almost 5 years ago

particle - Version 0.14.1

Code refactored in the CI by Sourcery.ai.
Updates to versions of pre-commit hooks.

- Python
Published by eduardo-rodrigues almost 5 years ago

particle - Version 0.14.0

Particle class:
- Methods Particle.to_list and Particle.to_dict enhanced.
Data CSV files:
- Version 8 of package data files, with fixed parities for antibaryons with undefined parity.
- Tests added to check if every particle is parsed and loaded correctly.
Miscellaneous:
- Minor fix on static typing.

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Published by eduardo-rodrigues about 5 years ago

particle - Version 0.13.1

PDG ID:
- Minor simplifications in some PID functions.
Particle class:
- Test for Particle.is_unflavoured_meson added.
Miscellaneous:
- Full static typing implemented.

- Python
Published by eduardo-rodrigues over 5 years ago

particle - Version 0.13.0

Dependencies:
- hepunits >= 2.0.0.
Tests:
- CI updates.
- Tests adapted to hepunits 2.0.0.
Miscellaneous:
- Support for Python 3.9 added.

- Python
Published by eduardo-rodrigues over 5 years ago

particle - Version 0.12.0

Particle class:
- Particle.dump_table() method removed and replaced with methods Particle.to_dict() and Particle.to_list() (avoids strong coupling of packages).
- Improve LaTeX particle names with \prime in them, to have correct HTML names for such particles.
- Misleading/awkward Particle.__int__ method removed.
PDGID class:
- New functions for qualification of PDG IDs:
- is_quark.
- is_gauge_boson_or_higgs.
- is_sm_gauge_boson_or_higgs.
- is_generator_specific.
- is_technicolor.
- is_composite_quark_or_lepton.
- is_special_particle.
- Several PDG ID qualification functions improved and/or enhanced, and minor bugs fixed for certain special particles.
Data CSV files:
- Version 7 of package data files, with fixed LaTeX and HTML particle names.
- Added newly-ish defined particles for two-Higgs-doublet scenario and additional SU(2)xU(1) groups.
- Internal and user-irrelevant file particle2008.csv file removed.
Tests:
- Test suite extended to deal with new PDG ID related functions.
Documentation:
- Demo notebook slightly extended.
- More explanations in the functions qualifying PDG IDs.
Miscellaneous:
- LaTeX-to-HTML particle name conversion function fixed to correctly deal with names containing \prime and/or \tilde.

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Published by eduardo-rodrigues over 5 years ago

particle - Version 0.11.0

Data files:
- Added the 2020 PDG data table .mcd file, now default.
- Version 6 of package CSV data files:
  - Since PDG 2020 information now the default.
  - Bug fix in parity of antibaryons.
Documentation:
- README updated and expanded with info on custom data loading.
Miscellaneous:
- ZipApp fix for releasing from web interface.

- Python
Published by eduardo-rodrigues over 5 years ago

particle - Version 0.10.0

Particle class:
- Several improvements, in particular to better deal with nuclei and diquarks.
- Speed of table loading improved.
- Particle enums extended for diquarks.
- Make particle literals available from top-level import.
- Print-outs made more consistent for missing and non-relevant particle properties.
- New tests added, some static type checking.
PDGID class:
- PDG ID functions extended to correctly and consistently deal with nuclei.
- Functions now accept any SupportsInt, including Particle objects.
Data CSV files:
- Version 5 of package data files:
  - Diquarks added.
  - Information in nuclei added! List and masses taken from package periodictable version 1.5.2.
  - A couple of PDG ID numbers corrected (they had evolved in time).
- Converter script adapted to add to the produced data files particles not in the PDG data table, such as diquarks.
Redesigned packaging system, GHA deployment.
Miscellaneous:
- Files *requirements.txt removed from package - use pip install .[dev] instead
- Warning from collections.abc fixed, keeping compatibility with Python 2.
- Deprecation warning in attr.s fixed, requirement on minimal version of attr added.
- Version tags now follow standard v#.#.# format.
- Some Python warnings fixed, warnings enabled on testing
- Some initial work on static type hints.
- ZipApp fixes, simplifications and size reduction; ZipApp now requires python3 to be available

- Python
Published by henryiii almost 6 years ago

particle - 0.9.2

Particle class:
- Deal with particles with no mass info.
- Make Particle.dump_table() work better in notebooks.

- Python
Published by eduardo-rodrigues about 6 years ago

particle - 0.9.1

Particle class: - Documentation added to various methods. - Minor fix to class method from_evtgen_name(...).

- Python
Published by eduardo-rodrigues about 6 years ago

particle - 0.9.0

Particle class:
- Robust handling of missing mass info.
Data CSV files:
- Version 4 of package data files, with more particles added (mostly badly-known particles relevant for MC).
- Version header now also present in the particleXXXX.csv files.

- Python
Published by eduardo-rodrigues about 6 years ago

particle - 0.8.1

Fix of lifetimes/widths (unknown) for corner cases.
Documentation updates.

- Python
Published by eduardo-rodrigues about 6 years ago

particle - 0.8.0

Changes in API:
- GeantID class renamed to Geant3ID.
Data CSV files:
- Version 3 (and 2) of package data files, which contain new entries and fixes for certain information in 2008 PDG extended data file.
- File data/pdgid_to_geantid.csv renamed to data/pdgid_to_geant3id.csv.
- 2016 and 2017 PDG data files mass_width_2016.mcd and mass_width_2017.mcd removed.
Tests:
- Tests for converters submodule added.
- Tests for Geant3ID extended.
Miscellaneous:
- Package files formatted with Black package.

- Python
Published by eduardo-rodrigues about 6 years ago