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Simulated Dataset Categories

Documentation Guide


The CERN Open Data portal classifies each simulated dataset into one category or subcategory. The scheme used here follows closely the CMS Physics Publications and ATLAS Physics Analysis Groups & Summary Plots structures.

Categories

  • B Physics and Quarkonia
  • Higgs Physics
    • Standard Model
    • Beyond Standard Model
  • Standard Model
    • Drell-Yan
    • ElectroWeak
    • Forward and Small-x QCD Physics
    • Minimum Bias
    • QCD
    • Top physics
    • Miscalleneous
  • Heavy-Ion Physics
  • Beyond 2 Generations
  • Exotica
    • Colorons, Axigluons, Diquarks
    • Contact Interaction
    • Dark Matter
    • Excited Fermions
    • Extra Dimensions
    • Gravitons
    • Heavy Fermions, Heavy Right-Handed Neutrinos
    • Heavy Gauge Bosons
    • Leptoquarks
    • Resonances
    • Miscalleneous
  • Supersymmetry
  • Physics Modelling

Description

Please find below the description of each category.

B Physics and Quarkonia

Datasets for bottom- and charm-quark production:

  • Heavy-quark hadron production, decay and properties
  • Quarkonia properties

Higgs Physics

Datasets related to Higgs physics including Standard Model and (N)MSSM

Standard Model Physics

Datasets for jet, vector-boson production and production of vector-bosons with associated jets:

  • Drell-Yan and Z/W production (including additional jets)
  • Multi vector-boson production
  • Forward and small-X physics (including diffractive processes)
  • Processes for top-quark production
  • Inclusive and multi-jet production

Heavy-Ion Physics

Datasets for p–Pb, Pb–Pb collisions, and p–p reference set

Beyond 2 Generations

Datasets for new heavy particles, including heavy resonances like Z′ and W′, di-boson resonances, heavy partners of the top quark (with vector-like quark (VLQ) properties)

Exotica

Datasets for non-supersymmetric physics beyond the Standard Model: extra dimensions, mini black holes, dark matter, extended Higgs models, compositeness

Supersymmetry

Datasets for production of supersymmetric (SUSY) particles including scenarios for both R-parity conservation and violation. ((N)MSSM Higgs production is under Higgs Physics)

Physics Modeling

Datasets for Monte Carlo generator studies and tuning, and for studies of systematic variations in different physics processes


A word of advice: the categorisation is done automatically, so some datasets may be miscategorised.

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