TY - RPRT TI - The critical importance of software for HEP AU - Agapopoulou, Christina [Univ. Paris-Saclay, Orsay (France); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Orsay (France). Inst. National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3), Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab)] (ORCID:0000000223680147) AU - Antel, Claire [European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland)] (ORCID:0000000196830890) AU - Bhattacharya, Saptaparna [Southern Methodist Univ., Dallas, TX (United States)] (ORCID:0000000205266161) AU - Gardiner, Steven [Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)] (ORCID:0000000283685898) AU - Genser, Krzysztof L. [Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)] (ORCID:0000000331588022) AU - Gooding, James Andrew [Technische Univ. of Dortmund (Germany)] (ORCID:0000000333539750) AU - Held, Alexander [Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)] (ORCID:0000000289245885) AU - Hernandez Villanueva, Michel [Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)] (ORCID:0000000263225587) AU - Jouvin, Michel [Univ. Paris-Saclay, Orsay (France); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Orsay (France). Inst. National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3), Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab)] (ORCID:0000000295011276) AU - Lari, Tommaso [Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Milano (Italy)] (ORCID:000000021388869X) AU - Lukashenko, Valeriia [Univ. of Zurich (Switzerland)] (ORCID:0000000206305185) AU - Malik, Sudhir [Univ. of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR (United States)] (ORCID:0000000263562655) AU - Moreno Briceño, Alexander [Univ. Antonio Nariño, Ibagué (Colombia)] (ORCID:0000000184152543) AU - Mrenna, Stephen [Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)] (ORCID:000000018731160X) AU - Ochoa, Inês [Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (LIP), Lisbon (Portugal)] (ORCID:0000000161561790) AU - Osborn, Joseph D. [Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)] (ORCID:0000000306977704) AU - Pivarski, Jim [Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)] (ORCID:000000026649343X) AU - Price, Alan [Jagiellonian Univ., Krakow (Poland)] (ORCID:0000000203721060) AU - Rodrigues, Eduardo [Univ. of Liverpool (United Kingdom)] (ORCID:0000000328467625) AU - Sharma, Richa [Univ. of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR (United States)] (ORCID:0000000246564683) AU - Smith, Nicholas [Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)] (ORCID:0000000203243054) AU - Stewart, Graeme Andrew [European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland)] (ORCID:0000000301827088) AU - Zaborowska, Anna [European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland)] (ORCID:0000000162101921) AU - Zerwas, Dirk [Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Hamburg (Germany). Inst. National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3)] (ORCID:0000000241983029) AU - van Veghel, Maarten [Nikhef Theory Group, Amsterdam (Netherlands)] (ORCID:0000000161786623) PY - 2025 DO - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-14571-6 UR - https://www.osti.gov/biblio/2997193 ID - 2997193 ER -