Oct 27 – 30, 2025
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone

PocketCoffea: Configuration Framework for CMS Analyses based on Coffea

Oct 29, 2025, 2:30 PM
30m
13/2-005 (CERN)

13/2-005

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Speaker

Felix Philipp Zinn (Rheinisch Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))

Description

PocketCoffea is an analysis framework based on Coffea for CMS NanoAOD events. It relies on a BaseProcessor class which processes the NanoAOD files in a columnar fashion.
PocketCoffea defines a Configurator class to handle parameter, analysis workflow configurations such as datasets definition, object and event selection, event weights, systematic uncertainties and output histogram characteristics in a user-friendly way. The user can customize the workflow through a configuration file and/or by redefining steps in a custom workflow derived from the BaseProcessor.
We present how to setup a simple analysis using PocketCoffea and demonstrate important features, such as the CLI and task workflow structure and the latest utilities to create fit templates and datacards for the CMS combine tool.

Authors

Davide Valsecchi (ETH Zurich (CH)) Felix Philipp Zinn (Rheinisch Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE)) Matteo Marchegiani (Carnegie-Mellon University (US))

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