Since 2014, the CMS Collaboration has pioneered the release of LHC research quality data for public use by making a significant amount of these data accessible through the CERN Open Data portal. Recently in 2024, the CMS Collaboration has released a sizeable new set of 13 TeV data collected in 2016.
This workshop is the fifth in a series that started in 2020 and it aims to bridge the technical gap that usually exists between the scientific creativity of an external analyst and the nuts-and-bolts details of a full analysis with CMS open data.
All exercises will be hands-on and participants should be prepared to dive into the data right away. A set of pre-exercises are provided and required for participants so that they can make the most of the workshop.
New for this workshop are morning hackathon segments where users with Open Data projects in mind can take advantage of the facilitators' knowledge to jump-start their work. Tutorial sessions in the afternoons will give users at any stage a pedagogical grounding in the CMS experiment and relevant open data analysis techniques.
The tutorial segments of the workshop will be offered in hybrid mode. The hackathon working segments will be optimized for in-person participation.
Access the tutorial site here (coming in July)
Organizing Committee:
Julie Hogan (Bethel University, Brown University, US)
Kati Lassila-Perini (Helsinki Institute of Physics, FI)
Thomas McCauley (University of Notre Dame, US)
Matt Bellis (Siena College, US)
