Enzo Morina

Abstract:

The research done this summer consisted of first, going through tutorials on which provided the necessary knowledge in order to understand how to go through CMS Open Data. The tutorials provided background information and practice with Docker, Root, and Dataset Scouting. The next step of the research was to obtain a CERN account in order to run a secure shell on CERN computers to convert the miniAOD format files, that were obtained from the Cern Open Data Portal, into nanoAOD format files (smaller version). These files were then uploaded to Google Cloud Storage and were visible to the public. The overall goal of this is for anyone to be able to read in these files from Google Cloud Storage to a Google Colab notebook without having to actually download these files. In the Google Colab notebook people will be able to do basic analysis of CMS Open Data without having to go through the complicated process that normally entails when trying to analyze the data. Going through the tutorials in the beginning gave the proper background to know the complicated process in going through the CMS Open Data and provided insight in order to assist in the CMS Open Data Workshop held at Fermilab this summer.