1.  ATLAS Data Preservation and Access Roger Jones

2. Data Preservation & Access  Opening data access  Preparatory discussions with “management”, CB chair, authorship and Pubcom chairs  Has clear implications for authorship/membership rules  Needs CB-level discussion  Past experience says these topics provoke long discussion in the CB!  Common principles proposed by LHC experiment Data Policy Harmonization Group straw man  This has been reviewed by the SIPB and taken to CERN Council to become a “policy suggestion”  A draft policy is with the management for discussion & has been seen by the ICB

3. ATLAS DMP Organization  Data Preservation now included as part of the upgrade activity planning  May increase the funding options – some evidence already  Data Management Planning is now required by some funders for upgrade grants  Looking at the cost/benefit of various strategies  Resource tensioning with other upgrade activities

4. Principles for preservation & access  General agreement RAW data is preserved for the experiment and future – open data access is not usually possible even to the collaboration members (level 4 data) and is not proposed for general use  Full reconstruction outputs for analysis might be made available after an embargo period – tbd, but clearly embargo of several years. The resource implications to make this useful are high. (Level 3 data)  We support limited access of samples in simple formats for outreach and teaching (level 2 data) – but these are best integrated to our presenter tools  Techniques like Recast may make data (information) usefully available, although it does not meet all the open access criteria for levels 2 & 3  We already make data from papers and supporting information available through HEPDAT/Inspire (Level 1 data)

5. Data Preservation Policies  Data Preservation  There are DP policies implied in the Computing TDRs  conserve all raw data during the lifetime of the experiment  All formats & code used for paper analyses to be archived  Tier 0/1s responsible for the physical preservation  Some tacit belief that older sets may be ‘retired’  Retired data no longer to be on disk or under active analysis  This may need to be revised e.g. if external access is then granted  Obvious resource implications  First priority to to preserve data for active use by the collaboration

6. ATLAS DP Practical Steps  Making sure raw data can be reprocessed long-term (Level 4)  Identifying key datasets for ‘unique data’ preservation  Setting up regular reprocessing and validation  This has been underway as a test case for the 2009 data, but progress is slow  Forward/backward compatibility issues illustrated in John Chapman’s talk on simulation release plans14/3/13  Ensure the capability to run old trigger selections offline  AODfixing will help (reprocessing at analysis format level)  This means level 4 operations can be applied to level 3 AOD format

7. Digesting validation results  Must display the results of the validation in a comprehensible way: web based interface  The test must determine the nature of the results  Could be simple yes/no, plots, ROOT files, text-files with keywords or length,...  Need for semi-automated, detailed physics validation  David South is on ATLAS and was central to the DESY SP and DPHEP activities  Identify the useful common components  Identify the ATLAS-specific elements  Set up CERN-based instance for ATLAS (and others?)

8. Existing open datasets  The CB has authorized various datasets in (level-2) outreach formats for open use in education/outreach  Event displays for interactive analysis (MINERVA/HYPATIA/LPPP/CAMELIA)  JIVE-XML, root format data  Absolutely not intended for any serious analysis, but illustrative

9. ATLAS Zpath  Master the invariant mass technique  to study and measure the (Z, J/  ) decaying to l + l -  to search for new physics (Z’)  And Higgs boson in  and l + l - l + l - HYPATIA using the ATLANTIS event display Data from 2011 – 13000 events ~2.5 GB (password protected, 100 open) – 13 data groups/directories, 20 subgroups (A-T), and 50 events/mixed sample/2 students – 50% Z, 30%  10% (J/ , 5% Z', 5% l + l - l + l - – Higgs candidate events: – 1 fb -1 and cuts according to ATLAS publication – 125 GeV Higgs MC signals ready to upload (1fb -1, 10fb -1,25fb -1 ) M(  )=125 GeV M(ee  )=123 GeV 9

10. ATLAS Zpath tests  OPloT:  M ll and/or M  and/or M llll to be discussed locally  Moderator: 1 slide with 3 invariant masses; Invariant mass as a tool to identify particles, to discover new particles, and to search for exotic particles  Web pages updated and measurement ready  http://www.physicsmasterclasses. org/exercises/ATLAS- 2013/en/zpath.htm http://www.physicsmasterclasses. org/exercises/ATLAS- 2013/en/zpath.htm http://www.physicsmasterclasses. org/exercises/ATLAS- 2013/en/zpath.htm  Introduced Higgs  Described new measurements  Prepared material for instructors, moderators, for discussions, … 10

11. OPloT Tests 2013  Higgs comments  4l provided without requiring 2l from Z, with lower cut on other pair   provide MC with 125 Higgs and background  Upload 125 Higgs MC ((1)&10 & 25 fb -1 ) 11

12.  Measurements  W  l  W  l  W+/W- ratio  Angular distribution between leptons in WW events  MINERVA program using the ATLANTIS event display  2011 real data: 693 WW/Higgs candidates (from released 1fb -1 ) mixed with 5307 W and other background events  Histogram tool  spreadsheet and histogram websites connected with database  New measurement tested ATLAS W-path with real WW (+H) events 12

13. ATLAS W-path 13 Data from 2011, 1.1fb-1 350 should be WW (w/o Higgs) 160 should be ttbar or single top 120 should be Z+Jets50 should be W+Jets15 should be from H  WW

14.  or e + e - ?  Left: p T >1GeV; right p T >5 GeV  2 apparent tracks pointing to 2 calorimeter objects  Zoom reveals 2-pairs e + e -  information The conclusion is that the 2 calorimeter objects correspond to 2 photons, which have converted and lead to 4 tracks; the tracks from one pair had less than 3 pixel hits So, to be classified and entered as  14

15. Level-2 observations  The applications are all trying to illustrate the analyses and physics in the true context of a detector  They use ATLANTIS as a presenter in most cases, which defines the natural common format  Other formats would require an additional interface, to what benefit?  Use case and resource justification for a common format not clear

16.  ATLAS Analysis Roger Jones

17. The Generic Analysis Flow

18. Level 3  ATLAS has no approved level-3 formats for external use, and such release will require such approval  We are concerned that anything released be useful, not consume large amounts of collaboration effort (both in production and response)  As such, tools like Recast are more attractive  The information incorporates the efficiency, acceptances and corrections – so is robust  It also helps meet the internal requirement of full documentation of analyses

19. Analysis Practical steps - RECAST  Framework developed to extend impact of existing analyses  Candidate for within-experiment and long-term analysis archival, encapsulating the full trigger & event selection, data, backgrounds, systematics arXiv:1010.2506  Allow an existing analysis to be reinterpreted under an alternate model hypothesis  Complete information from original analysis, including the tacit information, contained in the data  Not optimized for the new model, but more reliable than a naïve reanalysis? Recast seen as a very promising solution for preserving analyses and useful, cost effective preservation of information – addresses levels ~1-~3