New features of MadAnalysis 5 for analysis design and reinterpretation. (April 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Conte, Eric; Dumont, Béranger; Fuks, Benjamin; Schmitt, Thibaut
• Is Part Of: Journal of physics. Number 608(2015)
• Publication Date: 2015-04
• Subjects: Physics -- Congresses; 530.5
• DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/608/1/012054
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1742-6588

Abstract

Abstract: We present MadAnalysis 5, an analysis package dedicated to phenomenological studies of simulated collisions occurring in high-energy physics experiments. Within this framework, users are invited, through a user-friendly Python interpreter, to implement physics analyses in a very simple manner. A C++ code is then automatically generated, compiled and executed. Very recently, the expert mode of the program has been extended so that analyses with multiple signal/control regions can be handled. Additional observables have also been included, and an interface to several fast detector simulation packages has been developed, one of them being a tune of the Delphes 3 software. As a result, a recasting of existing ATLAS and CMS analyses can be achieved straightforwardly.