Exploring Open Data in High Energy Physics with the ATLAS Detector
Tutorial Room | Mon 20 Jan 3:45 p.m.–5:25 p.m.
Presented by
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Albert is a PhD student at the University of Adelaide in the field of high energy particle physics, where Linux and free open source software is used daily to analyse the wealth of data available within the field from contemporary experiments.
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Aman Desai is a PhD student at the University of Adelaide and works on the ATLAS experiment as well the Future Circular Collider (FCC-ee).
Abstract
Located on the border of France and Switzerland, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s most powerful particle accelerator complex. Over the last decade the particle collision data provided by the LHC has led us to many discoveries about the fundamental nature of the universe at the smallest of scales.
The ATLAS detector is one of several particle detectors attached to the LHC. Its scientific collaboration have released public datasets that are suitable for both research and education. In this tutorial we will explore the educational dataset released by ATLAS to give some insight into how particle physics research is conducted. We will demonstrate some common tools and techniques used for analysing LHC collision data and reproduce the famous 2012 discovery of the Higgs Boson.
Located on the border of France and Switzerland, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s most powerful particle accelerator complex. Over the last decade the particle collision data provided by the LHC has led us to many discoveries about the fundamental nature of the universe at the smallest of scales. The ATLAS detector is one of several particle detectors attached to the LHC. Its scientific collaboration have released public datasets that are suitable for both research and education. In this tutorial we will explore the educational dataset released by ATLAS to give some insight into how particle physics research is conducted. We will demonstrate some common tools and techniques used for analysing LHC collision data and reproduce the famous 2012 discovery of the Higgs Boson.