Contents of the course

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Introduction

A module can be presented as lectures, reading material, hands-on exercises, homework exercises...

Each module has a content provider whose task is to plan the module and find the material.

Contents

Module 1: Course organization

• Goals of the course
• Round-table presentation of the participants and their projects
• Presentation of the activities and the schedule
• Learning platform: web area, committing code to cvs, discussion lists, tutoring
• Goal of the module : learn the basic tools needed during the course
• Content provider: Kati Lassila-Perini

Module 2: CMSSW basics

• For the participants with little or no knowledge on CMSSW
• Different framework modules: produces, analyzers, filters...
• Accessing data
• Exercise: use FWLite to access the AOD data
• Exercise: write a simple EDAnalyzer accessing the physics data objects you need in your analysis
• Goal of the module : get familiar with basic CMSSW framework concepts needed in this course
• Content provider: BenediktHegner

Module 3: Introduction to PAT

• Introduction to basic principles
• The benefits using PAT
• Checking out and compiling the code
• Configuration files
• Exercise: run a PAT program accessing the physics data objects you need in your analysis
• Goal of the module : learn to run a PAT program with default settings
• Content provider: FredericRonga
• Link to module exercises

Module 4: PAT object data formats

• What is in the data (isolation, ID)? How to inspect?
• How PAT produces the data (embedding)?
• How do you read it? FWLite, full framework etc
• Where to find the documentation? doxygen, Offline Guide
• Goal of the module : get familiar with the data formats and how to find documentation on them
• Content provider:

Module 5: Analysis of the PAT data

• The tools: FWLite/EDAnalyzer
• Access the specific data (electrons, b-tagging, trigger...)
• Exercise: write a simple analysis program which accesses your PAT data
• Goal of the module :
• Content provider: BenediktHegner

Module 6: Cleaning

• Why cleaning
• Identify the physics data object for which you would need to look for overlaps and duplicates
• Exercise: look at the photon and electron collection in your EDAnalyzer and find overlaps
• Exercise: look how the duplicates are removed/identified in PAT
• Goal of the module : understand the need of cleaning and how it is done with PAT
• Content provider: Roger Wolf

Module 7: MC and trigger matching

• How PAT matches the reconstructed physics objects to simulated data?
• How PAT matches the reconstructed physics objects to the trigger objects?
• How to configure
• Exercise: match to your favourite trigger
• Goal of the module : understand the need of matching and how it is done with PAT
• Content provider:

Module 8: User selections

• Selection syntax in PAT
• Selection of objects (e.g above certain cuts), event filtering, selection of output contents
• Exercise: define the selections needed in your analysis
• Exercise: apply these selections in your PAT configuration file
• Goal of the module : understand the selection mechanism in PAT
• Content provider:

Module 9: Group dependent analysis layers

• common PAT features vs group dependent features
• good design
• Exercise: what is available? (check from one's group)
• Goal of the module : learn how to build on the PAT layers
• Content provider:

Module 10: Advanced topics

• This session can be optional.
• Customized cleaning
• Minimizing PAT sample size
• Goal of the module : gain insight on the advanced features
• Content provider: BenediktHegner

Module 11: Running a large scale analysis

• CRAB
• where to store your data? how to access it again?
• FWLite/EDAnalyzer in the context of large scale analysis
• Goal of the module*: learn the practicalities of the large scale analysis
• Content provider: Thomas Kress, CRAB team

Module 12: Evaluation and feed-back

• Evaluation of the use of PAT in the analysis
• Feed-back from tutors
• Feed-back from participants
• Content provider: SudhirMalik, FredericRonga

Review status

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Review: Not reviewed