Conveners
Parallel (Track 8): Collaboration, Reinterpretation, Outreach and Education
- Lene Kristian Bryngemark (Lund University (SE))
- Giovanni Guerrieri (CERN)
Parallel (Track 8): Collaboration, Reinterpretation, Outreach and Education
- Lene Kristian Bryngemark (Lund University (SE))
- James Catmore (University of Oslo (NO))
Parallel (Track 8): Collaboration, Reinterpretation, Outreach and Education
- Giovanni Guerrieri (CERN)
- James Catmore (University of Oslo (NO))
Description
Collaboration, Reinterpretation, Outreach and Education
The CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) regularly releases open data and simulations, enabling a wide range of physics analyses and studies by the global scientific community. The recent introduction of the NanoAOD data format has provided a more streamlined and efficient approach to data processing, allowing for faster analysis turnaround. However, the larger MiniAOD format...
The Large Hadron Collider Beauty (LHCb) experiment offers an excellent environment to study a broad variety of modern physics topics. Its data from the major physics campaigns (Run 1 and 2) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has accumulated over 600 scientific publications. In accordance with the CERN Open Data Policy, LHCb announced the release of the full Run 1 dataset gathered from...
ATLAS Open Data for Education delivers proton-proton collision data from the ATLAS experiment at CERN to the public along with open-access resources for education and outreach. To date ATLAS has released a substantial amount of data from 8 TeV and 13 TeV collisions in an easily-accessible format and supported by dedicated documentation, software, and tutorials to ensure that everyone can...
High Energy (Nuclear) Physics and Open Source are a perfect match with a long history. CERN has created an Open Source Program Office (CERN OSPO [1]) to help open-source hardware and software in the CERN community - for CERN staff and the experiments’ users. In the wider context, open source and CERN’s OSPO have key roles in CERN’s Open Science Policy [2]. With the OSPO, open-source projects...
The CERN Open Data Portal holds over 5 petabytes of high-energy physics experiment data, serving as a hub for global scientific collaboration. Committed to Open Science principles, the portal aims to democratize access to these datasets for outreach, training, education, and independent research.
Recognizing the limitations of current disk-based storage, we are starting a project to expand...
In recent years, there has been significant political and administrative interest in “Open Science”, which on one hand has lead to additional obligations but also to significant financial backing. For institutes and scientific collaborations, the funding opportunities may have brought some focus on these topics, but there is also a the significant hope, though engagement in open science...
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), has a rich tradition of fostering public engagement and outreach, as part of its strategic aim to showcase and celebrate STFC science, technology, and staff, both within its National Laboratories and throughout the broader community.
As part of its wider programme, STFC organised two large scale...
Since 1983 the Italian groups collaborating with Fermilab (US) have been running a 2-month summer training program for Master students. While in the first year the program involved only 4 physics students, in the following years it was extended to engineering students. Many students have extended their collaboration with Fermilab with their Master Thesis and PhD.
The program has involved...
The Remote^3 (Remote Cubed) project is an STFC Public Engagement Leadership Fellowship funded activity, organised in collaboration between the University of Edinburgh (UoE), and STFC’s Public Engagement Team, Scientific Computing Department, and Boulby Underground Laboratory – part of STFC Particle Physics.
Remote^3 works with school audiences to challenge teams of young people to design,...
Virtual Visits have been an integral component of the ATLAS Education and Outreach programme since their inception in 2010. Over the years, collaboration members have hosted visits for tens of thousands of visitors located all over the globe. In 2024, alone there have already been 59 visits through the month of May. Visitors in classrooms, festivals, events or even at home have a unique...
If a physicist needs to ask for help on some software, where should they go? For a specific software package, there may be a preferred website, such as the ROOT Forum or a GitHub/GitLab Issues page, but how would they find this out? What about problems that cross package boundaries? What if they haven't found a tool that would solve their problem yet?
HEP-Help (hep-help.org) is intended as...
Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a transformative tool in society and are steadily working their way into scientific workflows. Despite their known tendency to hallucinate, rendering them perhaps unsuitable for direct scientific pipelines, LLMs excel in text-related tasks, offering a unique solution to manage the overwhelming volume of information presented at large conferences...
CERN openlab is a unique resource within CERN that works to establish strategic collaborations with industry, fuel technological innovation and expose novel technologies to the scientific community.
ICT innovation is needed to deal with the unprecedented levels of data volume and complexity generated by the High Luminosity LHC. The current CERN openlab Phase VIII is designed to tackle these...
GlideinWMS is a workload manager provisioning resources for many experiments including CMS and DUNE. The software is distributed both as native packages and specialized production containers. Following an approach used in other communities like web development
we built our workspaces, system-like containers to ease development and testing.
Developers can change the source tree or check out a...
Virtual Reality (VR) applications play an important role in HEP Outreach & Education. They make it possible to organize virtual tours of the experimental infrastructure by virtually interacting with detector facilities, describing their purpose and functionalities. However, nowadays VR applications require expensive hardware, like the Oculus headset or MS Hololense, and powerful computers. As...
Data Preservation (DP) is a mandatory specification for any present and future experimental facility and it is a cost-effective way of doing fundamental research by exploiting unique data sets in the light of the ever increasing theoretical understanding. When properly taken into account, DP leads to a significant increase in the scientific output (10% typically) for a minimal investment...
With the onset of ever more data collected by the experiments at the LHC and the increasing complexity of the analysis workflows themselves, there is a need to ensure the scalability of a physics data analysis. Logical parts of an analysis should be well separated - the analysis should be modularized. Where possible, these different parts should be maintained and reused for other analyses or...
