30 July 2026 to 5 August 2026
Natal, Brazil
America/Sao_Paulo timezone

Celebi: a Novel Architecture for Reproducible and Preserved Physics Analyses

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20m
Natal, Brazil

Natal, Brazil

Via Costeira Sen. Dinarte Medeiros Mariz, 6664-6704 - Ponta Negra, Natal - RN, 59090-002
Talk Software and Computing

Speaker

Mingrui Zhao (Peking University (CN))

Description

Reproducibility and transparency are increasingly critical in high-energy physics, where analyses rely on complex, evolving workflows and heterogeneous software environments. While existing initiatives such as the CERN Analysis Preservation portal and REANA provide essential infrastructure, the day-to-day management and long-term maintainability of individual analyses remain fragmented and analyst-dependent.

We present Celebi, a new analysis-management architecture and toolkit designed to support the full lifecycle of a physics analysis, from active development to long-term preservation. Celebi combines a descriptive and distributed workflow specification with a structured file-organization model and an immutable “impression” mechanism that captures versioned analysis states. A dedicated middleware layer, Yuki, translates high-level analysis logic into executable workflows for containerized backends, enabling seamless execution on platforms such as REANA using Snakemake.

By integrating workflow description, provenance tracking, execution, and preservation into a coherent framework, Celebi enables reproducible execution, transparent re-analysis, and flexible analysis evolution with minimal disruption to existing analyst practices. This approach provides a practical and scalable foundation for collaborative development and long-term analysis preservation in modern high-energy physics experiments.

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Author

Mingrui Zhao (Peking University (CN))

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