Data Preservation in High Energy Physics
Abstract
Data preservation significantly increases the scientific output of high-energy physics experiments during and after data acquisition. For new and ongoing experiments, the careful consideration of long-term data preservation in the experimental design contributes to improving computational efficiency and strengthening the scientific activity in HEP through Open Science methodologies. This contribution is based on 15 years of experience of the DPHEP collaboration in the field of data preservation and focuses on aspects relevant for the strategic programming of particle physics in Europe: the preparation of future programs using data sets preserved from previous similar experiments (e.g. HERA for EIC), and the use of LHC data long after the end of the data taking. The lessons learned from past collider experiments and recent developments open the way to a number of recommendations for the full exploitation of the investments made in large HEP experiments.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2503.23619,
title = {Data Preservation in High Energy Physics},
author = {Alexandre Arbey and Jamie Boyd and Daniel Britzger and Concetta Cartaro and Gang Chen and Gabor David and Dmitri Denisov and Cristinel Diaconu and Dirk Duellmann and Marcus Ebert and Eckhard Elsen and Jacopo Fanini and Dillon S. Fitzgerald and Benjamin Fuks and Gerardo Ganis and Achim Geiser and Takanori Hara and Lukas Heinrich and Michael D. Hildreth and Julie M. Hogan and Henry Klest and Sabine Kraml and Eric Lançon and Clemens Lange and Kati Lassila-Perini and Sergey Levonian and Dietrich Liko and Chiara Mariotti and Zach Marshall and Thomas McCauley and François Le Diberder and Jean-Yves Le Meur and Gerald Myatt and Maxim Potekhin and Michael Roney and Pablo Saiz and Heidi Schellman and Jose Benito Gonzalez and Matthias Schröder and Ulrich Schwickerath and Tim Smith and David South and Giordon Stark and Tibor Šimko and Jan Timmermans and Andrii Verbytskyi and Arne Wiebalck and Zhiqing Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.23619},
year = {2025}
}
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Contribution to the European Strategy for Particle Physics 2026