Leigh-Ann ButlerDec 11, 2022
petersuber

"While all scientific results from the #LHCb [Large #Hadron Collider Beauty] collaboration are already publicly available through #openaccess papers, the #data used by the researchers to produce these results is now accessible to anyone in the world through the #CERN #opendata portal. The data release is made in the context of CERN's Open Science Policy."
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-large-hadron-collider-beauty.html

PS: Using unique & expensive equipment makes it more urgent than ever to share one's data.

#physics #particlephysics

Large Hadron Collider Beauty releases first set of data to the public

The Large Hadron Collider Beauty (LHCb) experiment at CERN is the world's leading experiment in quark flavor physics with a broad particle physics program. Its data from Runs 1 and 2 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has so far been used for over 600 scientific publications, including a number of significant discoveries.

Phys.org
Dec 11, 2022 at 2:50pmWeb
Show threadLew RileyDec 11, 2022
@petersuber "The analysis of LHC data is a complex and time-consuming exercise. Therefore, to facilitate the analysis, the samples are accompanied by extensive documentation and metadata, as well as a glossary explaining several hundred special terms used in the preprocessing. The data can be analyzed using dedicated LHCb algorithms, which are available as open source software."
CERN has the resources and infrastructure to do this well. It's a challenge for smaller-scale research programs.