HSF Documents

The HSF has written a number of documents and white papers, which are listed here.

In addition to these documents we have HSF Technical Notes and a full list of all of the papers connected to the Community White Paper.

Title Purpose Download Source Link
The Critical Importance of Software for HEP European Particle Physics Strategy Update 2025 Zenodo LaTeX
PyHEP.dev 2024 Workshop Summary Report PyHEP.dev 2024 Workshop arXiv  
Analysis Facilities White Paper Community Analysis Facilities discussions arXiv HSF-TN-2024-01
Second Analysis Ecosystem Workshop Report HSF IRIS-HEP Second Analysis Ecosystem Workshop arXiv, Zenodo LaTeX
Constraints on future analysis metadata systems in High Energy Physics   Comput Softw Big Sci (2022) 6, 13  
HL-LHC Computing Review Stage 2, Common Software Projects: Data Science Tools for Analysis LHCC review of HL-LHC Computing arXiv  
HL-LHC Computing Review: Common Tools and Community Software May 2020 LHCC HL-LHC review and US Snowmass Process Zenodo LaTeX
Monte Carlo generators challenges and strategy towards HL-LHC May 2020 LHCC HL-LHC review and US Snowmass Process arXiv  
The Importance of Software and Computing to Particle Physics European Particle Physics Strategy Update 2020 Zenodo LaTeX
A Roadmap for HEP Software and Computing R&D for the 2020s Community White Paper document CSBS, arXiv LaTeX