This is the 9th general workshop of the “Forum on the interpretation of the LHC results for BSM studies”, or LHC Reinterpretation Forum (RIF) for short. Its aim is to review new developments on the tools, phenomenology, and the experimental sides, regarding the questions of data and analysis preservation and reuse.
Emphasis at this workshop will be given to current and future developments regarding analysis preservation and reuse, and recommendations of best practises, in particular with regards to the upcoming European Strategy for Particle Physics Update. Moreover, an extensive session will be devoted to recent reinterpretation studies. Cross-talks with various LHC working groups will be appreciated.
Background: The purpose of the RIF is discuss topics related to the BSM (re)interpretation of LHC data, including the development of the necessary public recasting tools and related infrastructure, and to provide a platform for a continued interaction between theorists and with the experiments. So far, eight general workshops were held at CERN, Fermilab, Imperial College London and IPPP Durham. They resulted in the 2020 report on Reinterpretation of LHC Results for New Physics: Status and recommendations after Run 2, arXiv:2003.07868, and the white paper on Publishing statistical models: Getting the most out of particle physics experiments, arXiv:2109.04981 (both published in SciPost Physics). Moreover, the experiences from this Forum heavily informed the Snowmass white paper on Data and analysis preseration, recasting and reinterpretation, arXiv:2203.10057.
The RIF is an LHC-physics initiative supported and promoted by the LPCC.
