Les Houches

People: S. Sekmen, H. Prosper, G. Unel, B. Fuks, J. Tattersall, D. Schmeier, C. Pollard, S. Kraml, S. Kulkarni, D. Morse, D. Majumder, N. Desai, D. Sengupta. N. De Filippis, J. Sonneveld … etc. (add your name if interested)

Goal: Prepare an SLHA-like easy to read and write accord for describing the flow of an LHC analysis.

First proposal made for a generic structure. CM and MA authors will try to implement a single lepton stop search.

Proposal by Daniel Schmeier & Jamie Tattersall proposal1

Proposal by Nishita Desai, Suchita Kulkarni & Devdatta Majumder proposal2

Agreements:

• Binned information should have a simple way to cut it
• Cuts must not branch but instead can use a common 'predecessor'
• Syntax must not contain brackets to allow for an easy parsing
• …

To Be Discussed Isues:

• Format
• Definition of 'detector constructed' objects like jets, electrons, etc
• How to enforce documentation of the used objects
• …

Suggestion:

• Acronym: LHADA (Les Houches Analysis Description Accord) and not LHAAD
• Information about benchmark points
• Information about process generation needs to be added (merging parameters, generated process, link SLHA file if needed, link to model files etc.)