CMS Physics Object & Data Analysis School (PO&DAS) 2023

Europe/Berlin
DESY

DESY

Notkestraße 85 22607 Hamburg
Alexander Grohsjean (CMS - University of Hamburg), Andreas Hinzmann (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe Searches)), Matthias Komm (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe Searches)), Patrick Connor (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik) & CDCS)
Description

We are happy to announce the first edition of the Physics Object & Data Analysis School. It will take place from Monday 9 to Wednesday 18-October in person in Hamburg on the DESY campus. Registration fee for the workshop is 250 EUR (including coffee breaks and conference dinner but excluding accommodation and other meals).

 

The PO&DAS may be seen as an extended version of the traditional, 5-day long Data Analysis School, with additional sessions dedicated to DPGs and POGs. A preliminary agenda is already available, and registrations are now open (payment details will be communicated later on). We expect up to 80 students. Facilitators are encouraged to take part to the exercises in their free time.

 

We also plan a poster session on the first evening to get to know one another. The topic of the poster is entirely up to you.

 

We encourage travelling by train. A special note for German colleagues: to avoid unnecessary travelling, the school will take place right after the German CMS conference in Hamburg.

Surveys
CMS PO&DAS 2023
    • 09:00 10:30
      Registration 1h 30m Foyer of the auditorium

      Foyer of the auditorium

    • 10:30 12:30
      Plenaries Auditorium

      Auditorium

      Conveners: Alexander Grohsjean (CMS - University of Hamburg), Patrick Connor (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik) & CDCS)
      • 10:30
        Intro 20m
        Speaker: Patrick Connor (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik) & CDCS)
    • 12:30 13:30
      Lunch break 1h
    • 13:30 15:30
      Topical exercises University buildings

      University buildings

      • 13:30
        Anomaly detection 2h room 114 (bldg. 68)

        room 114

        bldg. 68

        Speakers: Louis Moureaux (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik)), Luka Lambrecht
      • 13:30
        Columnar analysis 2h room 010 (bldg. 67)

        room 010

        bldg. 67

        This exercise introduces the basics of columnar data analysis in the Python Scientific Ecosystem using the nanoAOD data format used by CMS. Columnar analysis here means processing high energy physics data in a vectorized way, giving potentially large speedups compared to traditional loop-based computing. The students will use the Python packages awkward, uproot and coffea to read and explore a nanoAOD event file, understand its format as well as its documentation, compute high-level variables, select events with simple cuts, as well as fill and plot histograms of the events.

        Speaker: Laurids Jeppe (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe TOP))
      • 13:30
        Git 2h room 010 (bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum))

        room 010

        bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum)

        Speakers: Karim El-Morabit (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik)), Lars Olaf Stietz (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik)), Samuel Bein (University of Hamburg)
      • 13:30
        RDataFrame 2h room 019 (bldg. 68)

        room 019

        bldg. 68

        Speaker: Suvankar Chowdhury
      • 13:30
        ROOT 2h room 011 (bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum))

        room 011

        bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum)

        Speaker: Antonio Vagnerini (DESY)
      • 13:30
        SciKit learn 2h room 125 (bldg. 68)

        room 125

        bldg. 68

        Speaker: Matthias Komm (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe Searches))
    • 15:30 16:00
      Coffee break 30m Foyer (bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum))

      Foyer

      bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum)

    • 16:00 18:00
      Topical exercises Uni buildings

      Uni buildings

      • 16:00
        Anomaly detection 2h room 114 (bldg. 68)

        room 114

        bldg. 68

        Speakers: Louis Moureaux (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik)), Luka Lambrecht
      • 16:00
        Columnar analysis 2h room 010 (bldg. 67)

        room 010

        bldg. 67

        Speaker: Laurids Jeppe (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe TOP))
      • 16:00
        Combine 2h room 203 (2nd floor) (bldg. 69 (IQP, former ILP))

        room 203 (2nd floor)

        bldg. 69 (IQP, former ILP)

        Speaker: Aliya Nigamova (University of Hamburg)
      • 16:00
        Git 2h room 010 (bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum))

        room 010

        bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum)

        Speakers: Karim El-Morabit (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik)), Lars Olaf Stietz (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik)), Samuel Bein (University of Hamburg)
      • 16:00
        MC techniques 2h room 011 (bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum))

        room 011

        bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum)

        Speakers: Mikel Mendizabal Morentin (DESY), Paris Gianneios, Polidamas Kioseoglou
      • 16:00
        RDataFrame 2h room 019 (bldg. 68)

        room 019

        bldg. 68

        Speaker: Suvankar Chowdhury
      • 16:00
        SciKit Learn 2h room 125 (bldg. 68)

        room 125

        bldg. 68

        Speaker: Matthias Komm (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe Searches))
    • 18:00 18:30
      Poster installation 30m Canteen extension

      Canteen extension

    • 18:30 20:30
      Session: Welcome drink & Poster session Canteen extension

      Canteen extension

    • 20:30 20:45
      Poster moving 15m Foyer of the auditorium

      Foyer of the auditorium

    • 09:00 10:30
      Plenaries Auditorium

      Auditorium

      Conveners: Alexander Grohsjean (CMS - University of Hamburg), Patrick Connor (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik) & CDCS)
    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee break 30m
    • 11:00 13:00
      DPG exercises Buildings 1 & 2

      Buildings 1 & 2

    • 13:00 14:00
      Lunch break 1h
    • 14:00 16:00
      Topical exercises Uni buildings

      Uni buildings

      • 14:00
        CMSSW 2h room 114 (bldg. 68)

        room 114

        bldg. 68

        Speaker: Suvankar Chowdhury
      • 14:00
        Columnar analysis 2h room 010 (bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum))

        room 010

        bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum)

        Speaker: Laurids Jeppe (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe TOP))
      • 14:00
        Combine 2h room 010 (bldg.67)

        room 010

        bldg.67

        Speakers: Aliya Nigamova (University of Hamburg), Philip Daniel Keicher (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik))
      • 14:00
        MC techniques 2h room 125 (bldg. 68)

        room 125

        bldg. 68

        Speakers: Mikel Mendizabal Morentin (DESY), Paris Gianneios, Polidamas Georgios Kosmoglou Kioseoglou
      • 14:00
        Unfolding 2h room 011 (bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum))

        room 011

        bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum)

        Speakers: Matteo Defranchis (CERN), Patrick Connor (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik) & CDCS), Valentina Guglielmi (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe QCD))
    • 16:00 16:30
      Coffee break 30m Foyer (bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum))

      Foyer

      bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum)

    • 16:30 18:30
      Topical exercises Uni buildings

      Uni buildings

      • 16:30
        CMSSW 2h room 114 (bldg. 68)

        room 114

        bldg. 68

        Speaker: Suvankar Chowdhury
      • 16:30
        Combine 2h room 010 (bldg. 67)

        room 010

        bldg. 67

        Speakers: Aliya Nigamova (University of Hamburg), Philip Daniel Keicher (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik))
      • 16:30
        Machine learning with Keras 2h room 019 (bldg.68)

        room 019

        bldg.68

        Speakers: Karim El-Morabit (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik)), Lisa Benato (Hamburg University)
      • 16:30
        Machine learning with PyTorch 2h room 010 (bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum))

        room 010

        bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum)

        Speakers: Lars Olaf Stietz (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik)), Marcel Rieger (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik))
      • 16:30
        MC techniques 2h room 125 (bldg. 68)

        room 125

        bldg. 68

        Speakers: Mikel Mendizabal Morentin (DESY), Paris Gianneios, Polidamas Kioseoglou
      • 16:30
        Unfolding 2h room 011 (bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum))

        room 011

        bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum)

        Speakers: Matteo Defranchis (CERN), Patrick Connor (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik) & CDCS), Valentina Guglielmi (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe QCD))
    • 09:00 10:00
      Plenaries Auditorium

      Auditorium

      Conveners: Alexander Grohsjean (CMS - University of Hamburg), Patrick Connor (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik) & CDCS)
    • 10:15 10:45
      Coffee break 30m
    • 10:45 12:45
      DPG exercises Buildings 1 & 2

      Buildings 1 & 2

      • 10:45
        Calorimeter 2h SR3 (Building 1)

        SR3

        Building 1

      • 10:45
        Muon chambers 2h SR7a (Building 7)

        SR7a

        Building 7

      • 10:45
        Tracker 2h SR2 (Building 2)

        SR2

        Building 2

      • 10:45
        Triggers 2h CMS Center (Building 1)

        CMS Center

        Building 1

        The trigger exercise will introduce students to calculating trigger efficiencies, using two different methods. Figuring out the trigger efficiency is a necessary step in most analyses, so this exercise will be broadly applicable to every student, regardless of their physics topic. This exercise will make use of CMSSW, nanoAOD, and SWAN.

    • 12:45 13:45
      Lunch break 1h
    • 13:45 15:45
      POG exercises: Part 1 Uni buildings

      Uni buildings

      • 13:45
        B-tagging and vertexing 2h room 203 (2nd floor) (bldg. 69 (IQP, former ILP))

        room 203 (2nd floor)

        bldg. 69 (IQP, former ILP)

        The BTV exercise aims to demonstrate the concept of flavor tagging and its usage in analyses.
        The first part of this exercise will cover the fundamental principle of b tagging, starting with understanding the discrimination power of the inputs to the tagging algorithm and is continued by evaluating the performance of the trained model.
        The second part of this exercise will be dedicated to the calibration of the b-tagger to handle differences between data and simulation. It will introduce one of the currently used methods for calibrating the full shape of the b-tagging discriminant and focus on the derivation of the correction and its application in analysis.
        Both exercises are based on a purely pythonic and columnar analysis workflow, in which you will be able to study the inputs and performance of the b-tagging algorithm by evaluating general machine learning performance metrics. In the second workflow, you will examine the agreement between data and simulation before and after the calibration, as well as implement the calibration itself with a special treatment of the jet flavors.

        Speakers: Sebastian Wuchterl (CERN), Svenja Diekmann
      • 13:45
        E/γ 2h room 019 (bldg. 68)

        room 019

        bldg. 68

        Electrons and photons are widely used and play an essential role in the success of CMS. They are indispensable for searches of new physics, including many models of supersymmetry. Knowing the characteristics of electrons and photons in the CMS detector is helpful. This long exercise shows how electrons and photons are reconstructed and how we get their correct energy. The attendees are assumed to have basic knowledge of ROOT, C++, and Python.

        Speakers: Afiq Aizuddin Anuar (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe TOP)), Ms Ying An (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe TOP))
      • 13:45
        Generators 2h room 010 (bldg. 67)

        room 010

        bldg. 67

        Speakers: Dominic Stafford (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe TOP)), Luis Ignacio Estevez Banos (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe QCD)), Simone Amoroso (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe QCD))
      • 13:45
        Jets 2h room 125 (bldg.68)

        room 125

        bldg.68

        We discuss the clustering algorithms, reconstruction, and calibration of jets. We alternate slides with open questions, exercises in plain C++, and exercises with Jupyter notebooks in Python.

        Speakers: Andreas Hinzmann (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe Searches)), Paris Gianneios, Polidamas Kioseoglou
      • 13:45
        Luminosity 2h room 010 (bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum))

        room 010

        bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum)

        The students will be introduced to the luminosity measurement at CMS, perform their own luminosity calibration with 2023 data, and learn how to calculate the integrated luminosity of a data set.

        Speakers: Joscha Knolle (Ghent University), Niels Van den Bossche (Ghent University)
      • 13:45
        Muon 2h room 011 (bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum))

        room 011

        bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum)

        In this session, we will start by introducing some basic concepts about muons: what they are, the sources of muons in CMS, the muon reconstruction algorithm, and the criteria used to select interesting muons for analyses.
        After that, you can familiarize yourself with muons in three tasks resembling real analysis tasks:
        The first exercise will get you familiar on how to handle muons in CMSSW: looking at a Drell-Yan simulated sample, you will learn to recognize the different sources of muons and how to use identification methods to classify them.
        In the second exercise, you will study the resolution of the muon reconstruction, using Z→μμ events as a standard candle. Then, using the same sample, you will try different identification methods and decide which one is more appropriate.
        In the third exercise, you will learn how to compute the corrections to cover the difference in efficiency between data and simulated events, using the tag and probe method.

        Speakers: Christian Winter, Federica Simone, Nicolo Trevisani
    • 15:45 16:15
      Coffee break 30m Foyer (bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum))

      Foyer

      bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum)

    • 16:15 18:15
      POG exercises: Part 2 Uni buildings

      Uni buildings

    • 09:00 10:00
      Plenaries Auditorium

      Auditorium

      Conveners: Alexander Grohsjean (CMS - University of Hamburg), Patrick Connor (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik) & CDCS)
    • 10:00 10:30
      Coffee break 30m
    • 10:30 12:30
      DPG exercises Buildings 1 & 2

      Buildings 1 & 2

      • 10:30
        Calorimeter 2h SR4a (Building 1)

        SR4a

        Building 1

      • 10:30
        Muon chambers 2h SR4b (Building 1)

        SR4b

        Building 1

      • 10:30
        Tracker 2h SR2 (Building 2)

        SR2

        Building 2

      • 10:30
        Triggers 2h CMS Center (Building 1)

        CMS Center

        Building 1

        The trigger exercise will introduce students to calculating trigger efficiencies, using two different methods. Figuring out the trigger efficiency is a necessary step in most analyses, so this exercise will be broadly applicable to every student, regardless of their physics topic. This exercise will make use of CMSSW, nanoAOD, and SWAN.

    • 12:30 13:30
      Lunch break 1h
    • 13:30 15:30
      POG exercises: Part 1 Uni buildings

      Uni buildings

      • 13:30
        B-tagging & vertexing 2h room 019 (bldg. 68)

        room 019

        bldg. 68

        Speakers: Sebastian Wuchterl (CERN), Svenja Diekmann (RWTH Aachen University)
      • 13:30
        Generators 2h room 010 (bldg. 67)

        room 010

        bldg. 67

        Speakers: Dominic Stafford (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe TOP)), Luis Ignacio Estevez Banos (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe QCD)), Simone Amoroso (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe QCD))
      • 13:30
        Jet 2h room 125 (bldg. 68)

        room 125

        bldg. 68

        We discuss the clustering algorithms, reconstruction, and calibration of jets. We alternate slides with open questions, exercises in plain C++, and exercises with Jupyter notebooks in Python.

        Speakers: Andreas Hinzmann (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe Searches)), Paris Gianneios, Polidamas Kioseoglou
      • 13:30
        Lumi 2h room 114 (bldg. 68)

        room 114

        bldg. 68

        The students will be introduced to the luminosity measurement at CMS, perform their own luminosity calibration with 2023 data, and learn how to calculate the integrated luminosity of a data set.

        Speaker: Joscha Knolle (Ghent University)
      • 13:30
        Muon 2h room 011 (bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum))

        room 011

        bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum)

        In this session, we will start by introducing some basic concepts about muons: what they are, the sources of muons in CMS, the muon reconstruction algorithm, and the criteria used to select interesting muons for analyses.
        After that, you can familiarize yourself with muons in three tasks resembling real analysis tasks:
        The first exercise will get you familiar on how to handle muons in CMSSW: looking at a Drell-Yan simulated sample, you will learn to recognize the different sources of muons and how to use identification methods to classify them.
        In the second exercise, you will study the resolution of the muon reconstruction, using Z→μμ events as a standard candle. Then, using the same sample, you will try different identification methods and decide which one is more appropriate.
        In the third exercise, you will learn how to compute the corrections to cover the difference in efficiency between data and simulated events, using the tag and probe method.

        Speakers: Nicolo Trevisani (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Nicolo Trevisani (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)), Nicolo Trevisani (KIT)
      • 13:30
        Tracking 2h room 010 (bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum))

        room 010

        bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum)

        The exercises introduce the basics of track and vertex reconstruction at CMS. The main track reconstruction algorithms are discussed with explanations on how to understand and access the reconstructed quantities. A few implications on the physics analysis are illustrated. The exercises are based on the standard CMSSW workflows with pythonic interface for job configurations.

        Speaker: Kirill Skovpen (Ghent University)
    • 15:30 16:00
      Coffee break 30m Foyer (bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum))

      Foyer

      bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum)

    • 16:00 18:00
      POG exercises: Part 2 Uni buildings

      Uni buildings

    • 18:00 19:00
      Transfer 1h
    • 19:00 22:00
      Session: Dinner Blockbräu

      Blockbräu

    • 09:30 10:00
      Plenaries Auditorium

      Auditorium

      Conveners: Alexander Grohsjean (CMS - University of Hamburg), Patrick Connor (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik) & CDCS)
    • 10:00 10:30
      Coffee break 30m
    • 10:30 12:30
      DPG exercises Buildings 1 & 2

      Buildings 1 & 2

      • 10:30
        Calorimeter 2h SR4a (Building 1)

        SR4a

        Building 1

      • 10:30
        Muon chambers 2h SR4b (Building 1)

        SR4b

        Building 1

      • 10:30
        Tracker 2h SR2 (Building 2)

        SR2

        Building 2

      • 10:30
        Triggers 2h CMS Center (Building 1)

        CMS Center

        Building 1

    • 12:30 13:30
      Lunch break 1h
    • 13:30 15:30
      POG exercises: Part 1 Uni buildings

      Uni buildings

      • 13:30
        E/γ 2h room 011 (bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum))

        room 011

        bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum)

        Electrons and photons are widely used and play an essential role in the success of CMS. They are indispensable for searches of new physics, including many models of supersymmetry. Knowing the characteristics of electrons and photons in the CMS detector is helpful. This long exercise shows how electrons and photons are reconstructed and how we get their correct energy. The attendees are assumed to have basic knowledge of ROOT, C++, and Python.

        Speakers: Afiq Aizuddin Anuar (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe TOP)), Ms Ying An (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe TOP))
      • 13:30
        Jet 2h room 125 (bldg. 68)

        room 125

        bldg. 68

        We discuss the clustering algorithms, reconstruction, and calibration of jets. We alternate slides with open questions, exercises in plain C++, and exercises with Jupyter notebooks in Python.

        Speakers: Andreas Hinzmann (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe Searches)), Paris Gianneios, Polidamas Kioseoglou
      • 13:30
        Physics Performance & Data sets 2h room 019 (bldg. 68)

        room 019

        bldg. 68

        In this exercise you will learn to find the samples you need for an analysis and information about them, for instance their cross section or how they were produced. You will also learn how the CMS simulation chain works and how to run FullSim and FastSim on your own.

        Speakers: Louis Moureaux (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik)), Patrick Connor (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik) & CDCS), Samuel Bein (University of Hamburg)
      • 13:30
        Tauon 2h room 010 (bldg. 67)

        room 010

        bldg. 67

        Tau leptons are excellent probes of electroweak physics, they decay before reaching the inner layers of the CMS tracker and require a dedicated reconstruction algorithm. With this exercise you will see how hadronically decaying tau leptons are identified with respect to jets, muons, and electrons, and measure the efficiency of the tau identification algorithm in order to measure the Z cross section in decays to tau leptons. You will also get familiar with resolution effects in the tau reconstruction process and other properties that need to be corrected to achieve excellent physics results.

        Speakers: Dr Andrea Cardini (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe HIGGS)), Océane Poncet
      • 13:30
        Tracking 2h room 010 (bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum))

        room 010

        bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum)

        The exercises introduce the basics of track and vertex reconstruction at CMS. The main track reconstruction algorithms are discussed with explanations on how to understand and access the reconstructed quantities. A few implications on the physics analysis are illustrated. The exercises are based on the standard CMSSW workflows with pythonic interface for job configurations.

        Speaker: Kirill Skovpen (Ghent University)
    • 15:30 16:00
      Coffee break 30m Foyer (bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum))

      Foyer

      bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum)

    • 16:00 18:00
      POG exercises: Part 2 Uni buildings

      Uni buildings

    • 19:20 19:50
      Poster: Removal
    • 09:15 10:45
      PAG exercise Uni buildings

      Uni buildings

      • 09:15
        Higgs columnar analysis 1h 30m room 125 (bldg. 68)

        room 125

        bldg. 68

        In the search for physics beyond the Standard Model, a detailed understanding of the Higgs boson properties is a crucial component. This exercise aims to give an overview of different analysis aspects in the context of Higgs physics at the CMS experiment. Specifically, we will discuss challenges and requirements needed for the selection of objects in signal and background events as well as the construction of a suitable final observable for selected examples. Additionally, we will show how to accomplish these tasks with modern Python-based tools for vectorized analyses, such as AwkwardArray and columnflow.

        Speakers: Daniel Savoiu (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik)), Marcel Rieger (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik)), Matteo Bonanomi (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik)), Philip Daniel Keicher (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik))
      • 09:15
        Jet measurements in Run 2 1h 30m room 114 (bldg. 68)

        room 114

        bldg. 68

        This section is focused on jets, which are a powerful tool to constrain the strong coupling constant alphaS, the parton distribution functions (PDFs) and to search for new physics. During the exercise, the students will go through the main steps of jet analyses up to the cross section extraction with a special focus on the trigger, jet energy corrections, pileup, and unfolding procedure. In the exercise, ROOT and C++ will be used.

        Speakers: Patrick Connor (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik) & CDCS), Polidamas Kioseoglou, Simone Amoroso (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe QCD)), Valentina Guglielmi (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe QCD))
      • 09:15
        Measurement of Z to μμγ branching fraction 1h 30m room 010 (bldg. 67)

        room 010

        bldg. 67

        During the exercise, the students will go through the main steps of dimuon analyses up to the branching fraction extraction, checking at event level the impact of the standard corrections at CMS. In the exercise, ROOT and C++ will be used.

        Speakers: Ankita Mehta (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik)), Louis Moureaux (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik)), Paris Gianneios, Patrick Connor (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik) & CDCS), Ms Ying An (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe TOP))
      • 09:15
        Search for New Physics with Top Tagging and Missing Transverse Momentum 1h 30m room 010 (bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum))

        room 010

        bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum)

        This analysis is a generic search for new physics targeting final states with one or more top quarks. It is motivated by models of R-parity conserving Supersymmetry (SUSY) that assume the existence of additional elementary particles not included in the Standard Model (SM). In the simplest case, there is one supersymmetric partner-particle for each Standard Model SM particle. The existence of these additional particles has many interesting consequences: Most strikingly, they can provide excellent candidates for Dark Matter, the substance that constitutes about 25% of our universe and for which there is no candidate particle in the SM. Moreover, the presence of supersymmetric partner particles in virtual loops can cancel the otherwise large corrections occurring in the renormalisation of e.g. the Higgs-boson mass. As a consequence, the theory becomes less dependent on the exact values of its parameters (becomes more natural) - a feature typically thought desirable. Also, the presence of supersymmetric particles in virtual loops leads to common gauge-coupling strengths when extrapolated to higher scales, which hints to some underlying, unified theory. However, so far, SUSY particles have not been observed, and hence, they must have higher masses than the known SM particles. SUSY particles could be directly produced in the proton-proton collisions at the LHC if they have masses in the TeV range. In many SUSY models the super partners of the quarks and gluons (called squarks and gluinos), are pair produced and can occur with particularly large cross sections compared to other SUSY-production channels. The squarks and gluinos will predominantly decay into coloured SM particles and pairs of stable LSPs (Lightest Supersymmetric Particles). In realistic models, the LSPs are electrically neutral and only weakly interacting such as neutrinos.

        Speakers: Samuel Baxter (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe TOP)), Soham Bhattacharya (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe Searches))
      • 09:15
        Top integrated cross section in Run 3 1h 30m room 019 (bldg. 68)

        room 019

        bldg. 68

        This exercise will perform a measurement of the top quark pair production cross section at a center of mass energy of 13.6 TeV, using data recorded by CMS in 2022. Based on a simplified version of the first CMS publication from LHC Run 3, the measurement will focus on the dilepton decay channels. A modern python-based framework will be used, with some dependence on the scikit-HEP package library (uproot, awkward arrays) and Coffea, highlighting the speed of columnar-based analysis and the CMS NanoAOD data tier. Students will start from a minimal working example and add their own cuts, histograms, and uncertainties to produce a measurement.

        Speakers: Evan Ranken (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe TOP)), Laurids Jeppe (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe TOP))
      • 09:15
        Top mass measurement in Run 2 1h 30m room 011 (bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum))

        room 011

        bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum)

        Speakers: Henriette Petersen (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe TOP)), Jiwon Park (DESY), Matteo Defranchis (CERN), Sebastian Wuchterl (CERN)
    • 10:45 11:00
      Break 15m
    • 11:00 12:30
      PAG exercise Uni buildings

      Uni buildings

    • 14:00 18:00
      PAG exercise: Homework Auditorium

      Auditorium

    • 09:15 10:15
      Plenaries Auditorium

      Auditorium

    • 10:15 10:45
      Coffee break 30m Foyer (bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum))

      Foyer

      bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum)

    • 10:45 12:45
      PAG exercise Uni buildings

      Uni buildings

    • 12:45 13:45
      Lunch break 1h
    • 13:45 15:45
      PAG exercise Uni buildings

      Uni buildings

    • 15:45 16:00
      Coffee break 15m Foyer (bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum))

      Foyer

      bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum)

    • 16:00 18:00
      PAG exercise Uni buildings

      Uni buildings

    • 09:30 11:00
      PAG exercise Uni buildings

      Uni buildings

    • 11:00 11:15
      Coffee break 15m Foyer (bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum))

      Foyer

      bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum)

    • 11:15 12:45
      PAG exercise Uni buildings

      Uni buildings

    • 12:45 13:45
      Lunch break 1h
    • 13:45 15:45
      PAG exercise Uni buildings

      Uni buildings

    • 15:45 16:00
      Coffee break 15m Foyer (bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum))

      Foyer

      bldg. 60b (F-Praktikum)

    • 16:00 18:00
      PAG exercise Uni buildings

      Uni buildings