The Glauber Monte Carlo (MC) model can calculate the relevant initial collision geometry of heavy-ion collisions, including the number of participating nucleons, the number of nucleon-nucleon collisions, and elliptical/triangular flow parameters of the collision overlap region. This paper describes a new implementation of the Glauber MC model using the NumPy Python library, allowing for rapid prototyping of new model features with the Python language and integration with extensive Python computational science tools. Our implementation is verified against calculations made by existing Glauber MC models of impact parameter, eccentricity, and triangularity. This paper additionally investigates a new metric for determining the elliptical nature of the collision geometry and assesses its relevance to event-shape engineering.
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