VALOR is a neutrino oscillation analysis group established within the T2K experiment in 2010 and named after its initial participants (VALencia-Oxford-Rutherford). The VALOR group led numerous flagship T2K oscillation analyses, produced world-leading results on behalf of the T2K collaboration and contributed to most published T2K oscillation papers. Details on the prolific T2K oscillation analysis output of the VALOR group can be found here.
Out of this effort came the VALOR Software Development Kit (SDK), a powerful, flexible, experiment-agnostic, well-validated, and optimised neutrino analysis framework. Using the VALOR SDK, our group has implemented analyses for sterile neutrino searches at the Fermilab SBN program, as well as for sensitivity evaluation and design optimisation studies for future experiments, such as DUNE and HyperK.
Currently, all codes in the repositories hosted in this GitHub organization are closed source 🔑. The VALOR group has medium-term plans to license and distribute the VALOR SDK to the community.
Experiment-agnostic analysis framework repository:
VALOR-SDK
Experiment-specific analysis repositories:
VALOR-JUNO -
VALOR-SBN -
VALOR-T2K-LBL -
VALOR-DUNE-LBL
Technical note and other documentation repositories:
VALOR-SBN-DOCS -
VALOR-T2K-DOCS -
VALOR-HK-DOCS -
VALOR-DUNE-DOCS -
VALOR-MANUAL -
VALOR-fit.github.io
- Costas Andreopoulos, University of Liverpool
- Yaoqi Cao, University of Warwick
- Thomas Dealtry, Lancaster University
- Ziou He, University of Warwick
- Rhiannon Jones, University of Sheffield
- Komninos-John Plows, University of Liverpool
- Davide Sgalaberna, ETHZ
- Beth Slater, University of Liverpool
Past authors:
- Maria Antonova, IFIC Valencia
- Dom Barker, University of Sheffield
- Chistopher Barry, University of Liverpool
- Francis Bench, University of Liverpool
- Andrew Chappell, University of Warwick
- Steve Dennis, University of Warwick & STFC/RAL; University of Liverpool; University of Cambridge
- Lorena Escudero, University of Cambridge; IFIC Valencia
- Nick Grant, STFC/RAL; Lancaster University; University of Warwick
- Thomas Ham, University of Liverpool
- Tereza Kroupova, University of Pennsylvania
- Jaiden Parlone, University of Liverpool
- Raj Shah, University of Oxford & STFC/RAL
Professor Costas Andreopoulos < c.andreopoulos \at cern.ch >
University of Liverpool | Dept. of Physics
Oliver Lodge Lab 316, Liverpool L69 7ZE, UK | Tel: +44-(0)1517-943201
