Practical information

The best way to understand how Neural Networks work is maybe to effectively start using one, questions and answers should then come naturally. For this all you need is a program and a manual to know how to run it.

The most popular software package for ANN simulation in particle physics (and one of the easiest, if not the easiest to use) is JETNET, but they are plenty of others if you are ready to spend enough time to learn how to make them work. In my opinion though, JETNET is already versatile enough and certainly the best one to start with.

Have a look at JETNET 3.4 developped at LUND University. You can:
- Download the JETNET 3.4 fortran 77 program
- View the postscript version of the manual
- Make you life easier by using some JETNET tools written by Richard Hawkings (OPAL).
- Look at a few general advice and recipes before you start.

This page and the code used here was developed at CERN for the OPAL Collaboration. The page was originally created by Herve Lafoux, Richard Hawkings, and Martin Kolrep.

Comments/questions should be directed to Alain Bellerive (alainb@physics.carleton.ca).