HepData and JetWeb: HEP Data Archiving and Model Validation

Buckley, A. , Butterworth, J.M., Monk, J., Nurse, E., Stirling, W.J., Waugh, B. and Whalley, M.R. (2006) HepData and JetWeb: HEP Data Archiving and Model Validation. In: 15th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 2006), Mumbai, India, 13-17 Feb 2006,

Abstract

The CEDAR collaboration is extending and combining the JetWeb and HepData systems to provide a single service for tuning and validating models of high-energy physics processes. The centrepiece of this activity is the fitting by JetWeb of observables computed from Monte Carlo event generator events against their experimentally determined distributions, as stored in HepData. Caching the results of the JetWeb simulation and comparison stages provides a single cumulative database of event generator tunings, fitted against a wide range of experimental quantities. An important feature of this integration is a family of XML data formats, called HepML.

• Item Type: Conference Proceedings
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Buckley, Professor Andy
• Authors: Buckley, A., Butterworth, J.M., Monk, J., Nurse, E., Stirling, W.J., Waugh, B., and Whalley, M.R.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy