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A study of CMS analysis pipelines through the Integration Challenge
Mohamed Aly, Peter Elmer, Peter Fackeldey +1
The upcoming High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) at CERN will deliver an unprecedented volume of data for High Energy Physics (HEP). This wealth of information offers si…
Recent benchmarks in the Analysis Grand Challenge and integration with Combine (and HS3)
Peter Fackeldey, Massimiliano Galli, Hannah Havel +4
The Analysis Grand Challenge (AGC) showcases an example of HEP analysis. Its reference implementation uses modern Python packages to realize the main steps, from data access to sta…
Building an AI-native Research Ecosystem for Experimental Particle Physics: A Community Vision
Thea Klaeboe Aarrestad, Alaa Abdelhamid, Haider Abidi +457
Experimental particle physics seeks to understand the universe by probing its fundamental particles and forces and exploring how they govern the large-scale processes that shape co…
The 200 Gbps Challenge: Imagining HL-LHC analysis facilities
Alexander Held, Sam Albin, Garhan Attebury +22
The IRIS-HEP software institute, as a contributor to the broader HEP Python ecosystem, is developing scalable analysis infrastructure and software tools to address the upcoming HL-…
Tuning the CMS Coffea-casa facility for 200 Gbps Challenge
Sam Albin, Garhan Attebury, Kenneth Bloom +7
As a part of the IRIS-HEP "Analysis Grand Challenge" activities, the Coffea-casa AF team executed a "200 Gbps Challenge". One of the goals of this challenge was to provide a setup…
PyHEP.dev 2024 Workshop Summary Report, August 26-30 2024, Aachen, Germany
Azzah Alshehri, Jan Bürger, Saransh Chopra +28
The second PyHEP.dev workshop, part of the "Python in HEP Developers" series organized by the HEP Software Foundation (HSF), took place in Aachen, Germany, from August 26 to 30, 20…
Reconstruction of 400 GeV/c proton interactions with the SHiP-charm project
SHiP Collaboration
The SHiP-charm project was proposed to measure the associated charm production induced by 400 GeV/c protons in a thick target, including the contribution from cascade production. A…
Analysis Facilities White Paper
D. Ciangottini, A. Forti, L. Heinrich +63
This white paper presents the current status of the R&D for Analysis Facilities (AFs) and attempts to summarize the views on the future direction of these facilities. These views h…
Physics analysis for the HL-LHC: concepts and pipelines in practice with the Analysis Grand Challenge
Alexander Held, Elliott Kauffman, Oksana Shadura +1
Realistic environments for prototyping, studying and improving analysis workflows are a crucial element on the way towards user-friendly physics analysis at HL-LHC scale. The IRIS-…
Coffea-Casa: Building composable analysis facilities for the HL-LHC
Sam Albin, Garhan Attebury, Kenneth Bloom +4
The large data volumes expected from the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) present challenges to existing paradigms and facilities for end-user data analysis. Modern cyberinfrastructure…
First performance measurements with the Analysis Grand Challenge
Oksana Shadura, Alexander Held
The IRIS-HEP Analysis Grand Challenge (AGC) is designed to be a realistic environment for investigating how analysis methods scale to the demands of the HL-LHC. The analysis task i…
Second Analysis Ecosystem Workshop Report
Mohamed Aly, Jackson Burzynski, Bryan Cardwell +66
The second workshop on the HEP Analysis Ecosystem took place 23-25 May 2022 at IJCLab in Orsay, to look at progress and continuing challenges in scaling up HEP analysis to meet the…
Snowmass 2021 Computational Frontier CompF4 Topical Group Report: Storage and Processing Resource Access
W. Bhimji, D. Carder, E. Dart +17
Computing plays a significant role in all areas of high energy physics. The Snowmass 2021 CompF4 topical group's scope is facilities R&D, where we consider "facilities" as the comp…
Collaborative Computing Support for Analysis Facilities Exploiting Software as Infrastructure Techniques
Maria Acosta Flechas, Garhan Attebury, Kenneth Bloom +7
Prior to the public release of Kubernetes it was difficult to conduct joint development of elaborate analysis facilities due to the highly non-homogeneous nature of hardware and ne…
Analysis Facilities for HL-LHC
Doug Benjamin, Kenneth Bloom, Brian Bockelman +9
The HL-LHC presents significant challenges for the HEP analysis community. The number of events in each analysis is expected to increase by an order of magnitude and new techniques…
HL-LHC Computing Review Stage 2, Common Software Projects: Data Science Tools for Analysis
Jim Pivarski, Eduardo Rodrigues, Kevin Pedro +3
This paper was prepared by the HEP Software Foundation (HSF) PyHEP Working Group as input to the second phase of the LHCC review of High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) computing, which to…
Track reconstruction and matching between emulsion and silicon pixel detectors for the SHiP-charm experiment
SHiP Collaboration
In July 2018 an optimization run for the proposed charm cross section measurement for SHiP was performed at the CERN SPS. A heavy, moving target instrumented with nuclear emulsion…
The SHiP experiment at the proposed CERN SPS Beam Dump Facility
SHIP Collaboration
The Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) Collaboration has proposed a general-purpose experimental facility operating in beam-dump mode at the CERN SPS accelerator to search for ligh…
Coffea-casa: an analysis facility prototype
Matous Adamec, Garhan Attebury, Kenneth Bloom +4
Data analysis in HEP has often relied on batch systems and event loops; users are given a non-interactive interface to computing resources and consider data event-by-event. The "Co…
Software Training in HEP
Sudhir Malik, Samuel Meehan, Kilian Lieret +44
Long term sustainability of the high energy physics (HEP) research software ecosystem is essential for the field. With upgrades and new facilities coming online throughout the 2020…
Sensitivity of the SHiP experiment to dark photons decaying to a pair of charged particles
SHiP Collaboration, C. Ahdida, A. Akmete +331
Dark photons are hypothetical massive vector particles that could mix with ordinary photons. The simplest theoretical model is fully characterised by only two parameters: the mass…
Software Challenges For HL-LHC Data Analysis
ROOT Team, Kim Albertsson Brann, Guilherme Amadio +21
The high energy physics community is discussing where investment is needed to prepare software for the HL-LHC and its unprecedented challenges. The ROOT project is one of the centr…
GeantV: Results from the prototype of concurrent vector particle transport simulation in HEP
G. Amadio, A. Ananya, J. Apostolakis +39
Full detector simulation was among the largest CPU consumer in all CERN experiment software stacks for the first two runs of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In the early 2010's, t…
Automatic Differentiation in ROOT
Vassil Vassilev, Aleksandr Efremov, Oksana Shadura
In mathematics and computer algebra, automatic differentiation (AD) is a set of techniques to evaluate the derivative of a function specified by a computer program. AD exploits the…