Analysis Description Languages for the LHC
Abstract
An analysis description language is a domain specific language capable of describing the contents of an LHC analysis in a standard and unambiguous way, independent of any computing framework. It is designed for use by anyone with an interest in, and knowledge of, LHC physics, i.e., experimentalists, phenomenologists and other enthusiasts. Adopting analysis description languages would bring numerous benefits for the LHC experimental and phenomenological communities ranging from analysis preservation beyond the lifetimes of experiments or analysis software to facilitating the abstraction, design, visualization, validation, combination, reproduction, interpretation and overall communication of the analysis contents. Here, we introduce the analysis description language concept and summarize the current efforts ongoing to develop such languages and tools to use them in LHC analyses.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2011.01950,
title = {Analysis Description Languages for the LHC},
author = {Sezen Sekmen and Philippe Gras and Lindsey Gray and Benjamin Krikler and Jim Pivarski and Harrison B. Prosper and Andrea Rizzi and Gokhan Unel and Gordon Watts},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.01950},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
Accepted contribution to the proceedings of The 8th Annual Conference on Large Hadron Collider Physics, LHCP2020, 25-30 May, 2020, online