Example analysis used for the Awesome Workshop

Example analysis of Higgs boson decays to two tau leptons used as a payload to demonstrate analysis preservation techniques.

This material was first used to teach software technologies at the Awesome Workshop aka the Analysis Preservation Bootcamp.

The HSF Training Curriculum

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This training module is part of the Training Curriculum, a series of training modules that serves HEP newcomers the software skills needed as they enter the field, and in parallel, instill best practices for writing software.

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Schedule

Setup Download files required for the lesson
00:00 1. Introduction What is the purpose if this analysis?
00:10 2. Physics background What is the physics behind the data?
00:25 3. Step 1: Skim the initial datasets What happens in the skimming step?
00:40 4. Step 2: Produce histograms Which histograms do we need?
00:55 5. Step 3: Make the plots How do we combine the histograms?
01:10 6. Step 4: Make a measurement How can we make a measurement?
01:25 7. Final preparations What do I have to prepare for the workshop?
01:40 Finish

The actual schedule may vary slightly depending on the topics and exercises chosen by the instructor.