29. Software publications

Here you can find a list of Belle II software publications covering different topics, either as papers or as conference proceedings.

Important

You must cite all relevant papers, proceedings or articles in your own publications, articles or theses.

29.1. Papers

Title	DOI	Topic
Kink Finder at Belle II	10.1016/j.nima.2026.171438	Kink Finder
Muon identification with Deep Neural Network in the Belle II K-Long and Muon detector	10.1016/j.nima.2025.170814	Muon ID with CNN
Track finding at Belle II	10.1016/j.cpc.2020.107610	Tracking
Software for online reconstruction and filtering at the Belle II experiment	10.1142/S0217751X20430010	HLT
Global decay chain vertex fitting at Belle II	10.1016/j.nima.2020.164269	Tree Fitter
The Belle II Physics Book	10.1093/ptep/ptz106	Misc.
The Belle II Core Software	10.1007/s41781-018-0017-9	basf2
The Full Event Interpretation: An Exclusive Tagging Algorithm for the Belle II Experiment	10.1007/s41781-019-0021-8	FEI
B2BII: Data Conversion from Belle to Belle II	10.1007/s41781-018-0016-x	B2BII

29.2. Conference proceedings

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| Title                                                                                                           | Presented at | DOI                                                                                  | Topic                               |
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| SysVar: Consistent and scalable treatment of systematic uncertainties in template-based analyses                | CHEP 2026    | `arXiv:2610.06117 [hep-ex] <https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.06117>`_                     | SysVar                              |
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| Graph-based Full Event Interpretation: A graph neural network for event reconstruction in Belle II              | CHEP 2024    | `10.1051/epjconf/202533701265 <https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202533701265>`_       | GraFEI                              |
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| Suppressing Beam Background and Fake Photons at Belle II using Machine Learning                                 | CHEP 2023    | `10.1051/epjconf/202429509035 <https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202429509035>`_       | Beam background and fake photon MVA |
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| Publication of the Belle II Software                                                                            | CHEP 2023    | `10.1051/epjconf/202429505018 <https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202429505018>`_       | Open source                         |
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| Particle identification with the Belle II calorimeter using machine learning                                    | ACAT 2021    | `10.1088/1742-6596/2438/1/012111 <https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2438/1/012111>`_ | Lepton ID with CNN                  |
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| A new Software Training Model at Belle II                                                                       | ACAT 2021    | `10.1088/1742-6596/2438/1/012052 <https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2438/1/012052>`_ | Documentation                       |
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| Simultaneous Global and Local Alignment of the Belle II Tracking Detectors                                      | CHEP 2021    | `10.1051/epjconf/202125103028 <https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202125103028>`_       | Alignment                           |
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| Monte Carlo matching in the Belle II software                                                                   | CHEP 2021    | `10.1051/epjconf/202125103021 <https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202125103021>`_       | MC matching                         |
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| Operating the Belle II Collaborative Services and Tools                                                         | CHEP 2019    | `10.1051/epjconf/202024508009 <https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202024508009>`_       | Collaborative tools                 |
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| Belle2VR: An Interactive Virtual Reality Visualization of GEANT4 Event Histories                                | CHEP 2019    | `10.1051/epjconf/202024508003 <https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202024508003>`_       | Virtual Reality                     |
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| Lepton identification in Belle II using observables from the electromagnetic calorimeter and precision trackers | CHEP 2019    | `10.1051/epjconf/202024506023 <https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202024506023>`_       | Lepton ID with BDT                  |
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| Belle II Conditions Database                                                                                    | ACAT 2017    | `10.1088/1742-6596/1085/3/032032 <https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1085/3/032032>`_ | Conditions Database                 |
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29.3. Additional publications

Here you can find a list of additional Belle II software publications covering algorithms currently under development. When fully implemented in basf2, these publications will be moved in the sections above.

Title	DOI	Topic
End-to-End Multi-track Reconstruction Using Graph Neural Networks at Belle II	10.1007/s41781-025-00135-6	CDC tracking with GNN
Photon Reconstruction in the Belle II Calorimeter Using Graph Neural Networks	10.1007/s41781-023-00105-w	ECL clustering with GNN