TkN

Toolkit for Nuclei (TkN) is a C++ library providing easy and fast access to a large variety of nuclear data measurements. It allows, for example, access to ground-state properties, excited level energies, and decay characteristics.

TkN can be linked with ROOT, allowing you to explore the TkN database interactively in the ROOT prompt. It can also be compiled without any dependencies for lighter integration in simulation codes or theoretical nuclear models.

The source code is available on GitLab.

→ Get started: download and install TkN

Publications & Presentations

• TkN/Cubix tutorial on the GDR RESANET YouTube channel
• Open Science practices in Nuclear Physics, 5-6 December 2022, online
• Jérémie Dudouet and Diego Gruyer, The toolkit for nuclei library (TkN): a C++ interface to nuclear databases, The European Physical Journal Plus 139, 641 (2024)

License and references

The TkN project is licensed under the MIT License. You can use, modify and/or redistribute the software under the terms of the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for details.

All the references used by TkN (PubChem, X-RAY DATA BOOKLET, IAEA-NDS, NUDAT3, ENSDF, XUNDL) are detailed in the Data sources section.

Please make sure to cite the following references if you use TkN:

• Jérémie Dudouet and Diego Gruyer, The toolkit for nuclei library (TkN): a C++ interface to nuclear databases, The European Physical Journal Plus 139, 641 (2024)
• The DOI specific to your TkN version, available on Zenodo: .

Contacts

• A TkN users channel is available on the IN2P3 Rocket.Chat. To join it, please send a request by mail to the developer team.

TkN developer team

• Jérémie Dudouet (IP2I Lyon, CNRS/IN2P3): jerem.nosp@m.ie.d.nosp@m.udoue.nosp@m.t@cn.nosp@m.rs.fr
• Diego Gruyer (LPC Caen, CNRS/IN2P3): diego.nosp@m..gru.nosp@m.yer@c.nosp@m.nrs..nosp@m.fr

Projects using TkN

The Cubix spectra viewer

Cubix is a graphical interface dedicated to 1D, 2D and 3D gamma-ray spectroscopy analysis. It uses TkN to display known transitions and to suggest nuclei matching observed coincidence patterns.

Visit Cubix ↗

The KaliVeda analysis toolkit

KaliVeda is a ROOT-based C++ toolkit for analysing heavy-ion collision experiments. TkN is integrated as a subproject and provides its nuclear and elemental data.

Visit KaliVeda ↗