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Contents:

  • First Analysis Steps
    • Pre-workshop checklist
    • Goals of the course
    • Physics at LHCb
      • The reconstruction
      • Building decay candidates
      • Building more complex decays
    • The LHCb data flow
    • Changes to the data flow in Run 2
    • The analysis flow and analysis preservation
      • Getting data files
      • Useful high energy physics analysis tools
      • Analysis Preservation
    • An introduction to LHCb Software
    • Finding data in the Bookkeeping
    • Downloading a file from the grid
    • Interactively exploring a DST
    • Running a minimal DaVinci job locally
    • Fun with LoKi Functors
    • TupleTools and branches
    • How do I use DecayTreeFitter?
    • Analysis Productions
      • Monitoring productions
      • Creating your own production
        • Testing your production locally
        • Creating a merge request
        • Analysis Productions Data
    • Running DaVinci on the grid
    • Splitting a job into subjobs
    • More Ganga
    • Storing large files on EOS
    • Developing LHCb Software
    • LHCb data flow in Run 3
      • LHCb upgrade
      • Upgrade of the LHCb trigger system
        • The HLT architecture
        • Selective persistency
      • Offline data processing
        • Changes to DaVinci
    • Asking good questions
    • Early career, gender and diversity
    • Contribute to this lesson
  • Second Analysis Steps
    • Using git to develop LHCb software
    • Building your own decay
      • The Selection Framework
      • A Historical Approach
      • Modern Selection Framework
    • What to do when something fails
    • Run a different stripping line on simulated data
    • Replace a mass hypothesis
    • Reuse particles from a decay tree
    • The simulation framework
      • What is Gauss?
      • Choosing your Gauss Version
      • Which option files to use and how to run Gauss
      • Running Gauss and create a generator-only sample
      • Make an nTuple
      • Controlling the decay: DecFiles
      • Modifying the decay
        • Adding a decay channel
        • Generator level cuts
        • Removing the generator cuts
        • Modifying the cut tool
      • Advanced: Modifying the decay
      • 3+ multi-body decays
      • Cocktail decays
      • Final state radiation
      • Changing particle masses / lifetimes/ widths
      • Finding Constants Used in an Existing MC Sample (Masses/Lifetimes/etc)
      • Why fast simulation is crucial
        • Speeding up the detector simulation
        • Speeding up the generation
    • HLT intro
      • Add trigger information to your ntuple
      • Exploring a TCK: List of trigger lines
      • Add trigger information to your ntuple, continued
      • Add TISTOS information to your ntuple
      • Exploring a TCK: Properties of trigger lines
    • TisTos DIY
    • Scripting Ganga
      • Defining jobs with scripts
      • Adding helpers functions
    • Managing files in Ganga
    • Advanced Dirac
      • GangaTasks
      • Alternative Backends - DIRAC (Python bugged)
      • Alternative Backends - DIRAC (DaVinci)
      • Alternative Backends - Condor
    • Containers and running legacy code
  • Self guided lessons
    • Batch submission using HTCondor
      • Submitting a simple job
        • Tracking your jobs
      • More submit file options
        • Input files
        • Output files
        • Arguments
        • Resources and Requirements
        • Notifications
      • Using the queue command
        • More on variables
        • Other ways to queue
        • Mixing options and variables
      • System architecture
      • Other useful resources
    • Creating a grid proxy without LbScripts
      • Installation
        • macOS with homebrew
        • Ubuntu
        • CentOS
        • Arch Linux
      • Getting the required files and certificates
      • Creating a proxy
      • Managing the proxy
  • Contributing
    • Getting Started
    • Dependencies
      • Contributor Code of Conduct
      • Instructional Material
      • Software

External links:

  • HSF analysis essentials
    • An introduction to Python
    • Advanced Python tutorial
    • Introducing the shell
    • UNIX shell
    • Analysis automation with Snakemake
    • Version control with Git
  • LHCb Core documentation
  • LHCb glossary
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