About ATLASWatchMan

Here you will find an introduction to the ATLASWatchMan package, and about the concept behind it.

Why ATLASWatchMan? A little story from everyday life...

Analyzing experimental data.

This is the goal for all of us.

We all want to easily access the data, easily read them, easily implement the idea of analysis that we had going by car to the office, in the morning...
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Introduction

The ATLASWatchMan package is a new framework for physics analysis.

The new idea we put into this tool is the high level of automatization in the creation of the Analysis Code. The user can set his/her analysis (or a group of analyses, as many as he/her wants!), defining object selection, overlap removal and cuts and formulas (from a default library or as custom user-defined)...and he/she gets as output the generated anlaysis code for all the analyses, ready to be run, together with the Athena and ARA jobOptions files to run it, locally or on the Grid ...via generated ad hoc scripts, of course!

• Why automating the Analysis Code creation?

• ATLASWatchMan description

• ATLASWatchMan within the ATLAS Framework

• The ATLASWatchMan work-flow: how the package works, examples of steering files and dynamically generated output analysis code.

• Future Improvements

Presentations

• "From the coffee corner...to the Analysis Code! ATLASWatchMan Analysis Code Generator and Ntuple Maker: features and use-cases"
  ATLAS PAT Meeting - 17.06.2009 - link
• "SUSY Searches with ATLASWatchMan"
  ATLAS SUSY Working Group Meeting - 26.03.2009 - link
• "!ATLASWatchMan - A tool to automate Analysis Code Generation"
  DPG 2009 Munich - 13.03.2009 - link
• "Automated Analysis Code Generation and D3PD Making with ATLASWatchMan"
  ATLAS PAT Meeting - 11.03.2009 - link

The ATLASWatchMan Team:

• Based on an idea of Sascha Caron

• Designed and developed by:
  • Riccardo-Maria Bianchi, <rbianchi@cern.ch>
  • Renaud Bruneliere, <bruneli@cern.ch>

• Contributors:
  • Florian Ahles,
  • Asen Christov,
  • Debra Lumb,
  • Jan Erik Sundermann

• Testers:
  • Janet Dietrich,
  • Michael Rammensee,
  • Zuzana Rurikova,
  • Kathrin Stoerig

-- RiccardoMariaBianchi - 26 Jul 2009