MuDirac 1.3.0: A Sustainable Software Tool for Calculating Ground State Nuclear Properties Using Muonic X-Ray Measurements

TL;DR

MuDirac 1.3.0 is an open-source software tool designed for efficient and accurate estimation of nuclear charge radii from muonic X-ray measurements, supporting the negative muon research community.

Contribution

The paper introduces MuDirac 1.3.0, a sustainable and publicly available software that simplifies calculating nuclear properties from experimental muonic X-ray data.

Findings

Enables accurate estimation of nuclear charge radii

Provides a computationally efficient tool for the muon community

Supports modeling with a 2-parameter Fermi distribution

Abstract

The nuclear charge radius is one of the most fundamental quantities of the atomic nucleus. It can be deduced from a combination of experimental measurements of muonicX-raytransitionenergieswithmodellingofthoseX-raytransitionenergies. In thisworkwepresentMuDirac (1.3.0), whichisanopen, publiclyavailable, sustainable and computationally efficient software tool that will be at put the disposal of the negative muon community. With MuDirac (1.3.0), the community will be able to accurately and efficiently estimate nuclear properties, such as the nuclear charge radius, by assuming a 2-parameter Fermi distribution of the nuclear charge.