Software publications
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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.   

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

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| End-to-End Multi-track Reconstruction Using Graph Neural Networks at Belle II             | `10.1007/s41781-025-00135-6 <https://doi.org/10.1007/s41781-025-00135-6>`_ | CDC tracking with GNN   |
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| Photon Reconstruction in the Belle II Calorimeter Using Graph Neural Networks             | `10.1007/s41781-023-00105-w <https://doi.org/10.1007/s41781-023-00105-w>`_ | ECL clustering with GNN |
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