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LPNHE Group meeting

Wednesday 13 July 2011. LPNHE Group meeting. Topics to discuss. Language used for the meetings ATLAS general news LPNHE general news OTP status Finances Feedback from Conseil Scientifique Preparation of the biennale. Language in LPNHE ATLAS meetings Status.

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LPNHE Group meeting

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  1. Wednesday 13 July 2011 LPNHE Group meeting

  2. Topics to discuss • Language used for the meetings • ATLAS general news • LPNHE general news • OTP status • Finances • Feedback from Conseil Scientifique • Preparation of the biennale

  3. Language in LPNHE ATLAS meetingsStatus • Most of our meetings are in english (actually, as soon as at least one non-French speaking person is present) • Most important constraint : people have to have minimal understanding of what is said/presented --> OK with english

  4. Language in LPNHE ATLAS meetingsSome considerations • Some regrets expressed by former (non French speaking) ATLAS student of not having been pushed enough to learn basics of French. • French useful for foreigners in their outside LPNHE life (préfecture, buying food, finding they way, university administration...) • Learning a foreign language/culture is an interesting and important side effect of working away from home country. • LPNHE accepts to pay french courses for foreigners

  5. Language in LPNHE-ATLAS meetingsPropositions/Options • Freedom of choice at each meeting ? • Default option : French with slides in english ? • People ask for an on-the-fly verbal translation to english ? • Scientific stuff in english, political stuff in french ?

  6. ATLAS general news Hope to have 3-5 fb-1 by end of 2011

  7. Communication of sensitive results to CERN and to other experiments • No direct relationship with non-Higgs non-discovery • Procedure under discussion between CERN and experiments • See Fabiola's slides at last ATLAS week https://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=119&sessionId=1&resId=0&materialId=slides&confId=141246 • Reminder in direct relation with non-Higgs non discovery : Please read attached pdf file : “Guidelines for handling and approval of physics results”

  8. Authorship WG Mandate • The Authorship Working Group was set-up by the Collaboration Board in March 2011 with the following original mandate: • Review the experience with and adequacy of the authorship policy based on first physics publications and conference proceedings. • Review the implementation of the authorship policy, e.g. data base, sequence of events in the publication process, interaction with publishers. • Compare ATLAS procedures with procedures of other large HEP experiments and guidelines of physical societies. • Review the pre-data taking credit scheme. • Evaluate schemes allowing voluntary authorship for each publication. • Evaluate schemes ensuring a fair implementation of the "continuing qualification" requirement of the authorship policy. • Propose modifications to the present authorship policy document wherever needed. 6/2011 Authorship WG report - ATLAS Week 8

  9. Description of the process • In its first meetings, the WG identified various area and formulated related questions in order to receive comments and suggestions from the collaboration. The area are: • Authorship Qualification • Continuing Qualification • Voluntary Authorship • Pre-Data Taking Credits • The questions are documented in CDS: ATL-COM-GEN-2011-006 http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1353213 • 40 answers were received and can be seen in CDS • These answers provided useful input to the WG • The WG would like to thank these colleagues for providing their feedback • The WG has converged to the following set of recommendations 20/6/2011 Authorship WG report - ATLAS Week 9

  10. Authorship Qualification (1) • According to the current policy, • to become an ATLAS author, a person must: • Have been a qualifying ATLAS member for at least one year. • Have spent at least 50% of their available research time during the year, and not less than 80 full working days, doing ATLAS technical work. Normally, the relevant amount of technical work must be accumulated over one year. • The qualification project is chosen among OTP tasks or/and non-OTP qualification tasks. The qualification project is defined between the member, the team leader and the relevant Project Leader/Activity Coordinator, and must be agreed by the Authorship Committee. 23/6/2011 Authorship WG report - ATLAS Week 10

  11. Authorship Qualification (3) • New recommendation from the Authorship WG • to become an ATLAS author, a person must: • Have been a Qualifying ATLAS member for at least one year. • Complete a qualifying task, defined by a Project Leader or Activity Coordinator taking into account the special skills and availability of the person and corresponding to a work load of about 80 full working days. Normally the task should be completed within one year. 23/6/2011 Authorship WG report - ATLAS Week 11

  12. Authorship Qualification (4) • Additional remarks: • The amount of shift work should be limited in the qualification task, class 1 shifts are not counted. • Upgrade related tasks should have a fraction below 50% (students may qualify with upgrade tasks alone). The qualifying Upgrade Task must be approved by the Project Leader of approved upgrade projects or by the Upgrade Coordinator for other upgrade activities. • After 6 months the progress of the qualification task should be reviewed and if needed the scope should be adjusted. • Preferably the qualifications tasks should encourage newcomers to use their acquired skills after qualification for class 3 expert work. 23/6/2011 Authorship WG report - ATLAS Week 12

  13. Continuing Qualification (1) • The current Authorship Policy Document states the following • In order to remain qualified, every active author must: • continue as ATLAS member • spend 50% of research time in ATLAS • not be author of another major LHC collaboration …… All authors are expected to continue to do some technical work each year after they qualify. Operation tasks will be allocated to the Institution in proportion to the number of Active ATLAS authors plus Qualifying ATLAS members. 23/6/2011 Authorship WG report - ATLAS Week 13

  14. Continuing Qualification (3) • New recommendation from the Authorship WG • The Working Group recommends to continue to monitor the fulfillment of OTP tasks on the institute level and not on the individual level. • Enforcing the fulfillment of OTP requirements should therefore be handled in the context of OTP and POTS and not in the context of the authorship. 23/6/2011 Authorship WG report - ATLAS Week 14

  15. Voluntary Authorship (1) • Several ATLAS authors have expressed their preference for an author list policy that would make it easy for each eligible author to sign or not to sign a paper. (Please note that this voluntary scheme is not meant to cover cases where authors disagree with the scientific content of a paper. In these cases we expect people to express their criticism through the normal channels and work to improve the paper. Removing their name in such a case should be a last resort). • Voluntary authorship would allow each eligible author the flexibility to decide his or her own criteria for inclusion in the author list for a paper. Simple database tools would facilitate the process. A voluntary scheme was used for example by the BELLE experiment. 23/6/2011 Authorship WG report - ATLAS Week 15

  16. Voluntary Authorship (3) • Recommendation from the Authorship WG • Voluntary Authorship schemes are not recommended at this stage of the experiment. 23/6/2011 Authorship WG report - ATLAS Week 16

  17. Pre-Data Taking Credits (1) • The current Authorship Policy Document states the following about authorship of former members : • upon leaving ATLAS authors are given 1 year of automatic authorship credit. • in addition they receive 4 months / year of authorship during the period 1/1/1997 to 16/3/2009 (~ 4.2 years max.) (NB a person cannot be simultaneously author of ATLAS and another major LHC experiment) 23/6/2011 Authorship WG report - ATLAS Week 17

  18. Pre-Data Taking Credits (3) • New recommendation from the Authorship WG • Once every year the team leaders receive an email with the request to check whether all authors, who use pre-data taking credits, want to continue to be authors in the coming year. • Starting from 2012 a scheme of decreasing pre-data credits is applied for active ATLAS authors (e.g. for every subsequent year with publications as eligible author ½ year is subtracted from the pre-data taking credits). (slowly phase out the pre-data taking credit) • Active members, who loose qualification, can continue authorship by using their pre-data taking credits. Once their credit expires, they need to re-qualify in order to become author again. 23/6/2011 Authorship WG report - ATLAS Week 18

  19. Update on the Fast Physics Monitoring Project David Berge (CERN) For the Fast Physics Monitoring Group ATLAS Week June 2011 AOD-based Z’->ee monitoring TAG-based Z’->ee monitoring atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/fastphys/fastmon/ atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/fastphys/tagmon/

  20. Higgs example – gg 2020 https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/fastphys/tagmon/higgs_gg.html AOD https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/fastphys/fastmon/higgs_gg.html TAG • Qualitative agreement, but can never expect TAG and AOD approach to yield the same results • TAG variables not exactly those used by the offline analysis • TAG files ought to be light-weight, AOD will always have more detail • This isn’t a problem, as long as data/MC agree for the TAG approach – we always knew that the ultimate performance needs the detail of the AODs! • Simple exponential fit on the left describes the data reasonably well, MC not far off either

  21. Exotics example – dijet analysis 2121 Dijet invariant mass spectrum for jets with |0.5Dh|<0.6 https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/fastphys/tagmon/exo_dijet.html • Search for contact interactions, resonances, etc. • Note: residuals are data over fit (not MC, which is LO Pythia) • Besides Mjj, the centrality ratio is a common plot to search for new physics: • F (Mjj) = |0.5Dh|<0.6 / |0.5Dh|<1.7 • Ratio is flat versus Mjj for QCD backgrounds, reveals a bump or a slope for a heavy resonance or a contact interaction • The first alert: looking at the centrality ratio plot for the first time on 10 June, we decided to alert the exotics group…

  22. Summary 2222 • First version of fast-physics monitoring up and running • A lot of work still needed to implement more signatures in order to monitor new data as unbiased as possible, in the quickest possible way • Consolidation of existing signatures ongoing, chasing down data / MC differences • Nice side-effect: TAG files lifted to a new level, now much more realistic and useful than 2 months ago • And the next TAG reprocessing with additional fixes is being planned now • Check it out, give us feedback, spot problems, contribute(!): https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/fastphys/fastmon/ https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/fastphys/tagmon/ • Your favourite model is missing? Help us to implement it! Recipes under • https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/AtlasProtected/FastPhysicsAODMon • https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/AtlasProtected/FastPhysicsTAGMon • https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/fastphys/tagmon/help.html

  23. LPNHE general news (from last réunion des responsables, 17/06/2011 • Biennale : incitation to register, incl. beginning Ph D students • Mutualisation money partly used : -> end of year globally difficult • Office repartition (RdC) to be defined in September • Promotions ITA : Swarna Bassava promoted to Technician. Only success for LPNHE this year. • Délégations CNRS : Tavernet, Trincaz, Schahmaneche. Do not hesitate to apply.

  24. LPNHE general news • Positions next year : • P6 : PR ATLAS (Higgs at LHC) • P7 : MCF Physics at LHC not retained • Recruitment CNRS : mutation F. Polci (LHCb), arrival C. Giganti (T2K) • Stages : 54 applications, 29 stagiaires, 14 refused. 7M2, 10 M1, 8L3. Most UPMC. • Remunerations : over 2 months-> stage paid. • Policy is to have all stages 2 months if possible and wished by the students.

  25. OTP status (reminder from May) • Class 1 : 38% of quota (IN2P3 37%), still few people involved at LPNHE (4 persons only) • Class 2 : 49% of quota (IN2P3 13%) Good. • Class 3 : 0% of quota (IN2P3 9%) . Bad. 5.56 FTE required... • All, or almost all, of those who did nothing last year have improved their situation. • Class 3 worrysome, and class 1 may become so on medium time scale.

  26. OTP status (yesterday) • Class 1 : 88% of quota (IN2P3 56%), (6 persons) Looks reasonable • Class 2 : 69% of quota (IN2P3 28%) Good. • Class 3 : 6% of quota (IN2P3 34%) . Bad. 5.56 FTE required... • Class 3 worrysome • All of those who did nothing last year have now improved their situation. • Got an email from ATLAS mgmt about 5 persons who are authors and did no OTP in the last two years. All cases solved.

  27. OTP Mc Donald style : plots for 2010 ATLAS LPNHE LPNHE FTE FTE

  28. OTP Mc Donald style : plots for 2011 ATLAS LPNHE LPNHE FTE FTE

  29. OTP Mc Donald style : numbers • 2010 • ATLAS : 2512 contributors, 773.7 FTE, avg=0.3080 • LPNHE : 16 contributors (0.637%), 2.73 FTE (0.353%), avg=0.1706 (55%) • 2011 • ATLAS : 1869 contributors, 318.3 FTE, avg=0.1703 • LPNHE : 21 contributors (1.12%), 1.31 FTE (0.41%), avg=0.06226(37%) • Conclusions : more people participating, but smaller individual contributions in average

  30. Status of finances • 22 000 euros available until end of year for travel • Repartition quite uniform among the group. • Present consumption rate : 220 euros/day, i.e. still 100 days available, need to cover still 150 days. • Have to be careful to reach end of year...

  31. Feedback from CS • Amount of work done in the group should be recognized by more “official” positions, like convenerships • They suggest intensifying CERN presence for limited people, to increase their visibility

  32. Biennale

  33. Some comments for biennale speakers • Try to put material presented in context : • What is done by us, what do we bring ? • Why is such and such topic interesting ? • Do not forget assistance is very broad : engineers, technicians, administrative people, students, astroparticle physicists, particle physicists

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