Abstract
We present a set of recommendations for the presentation of LHC results on searches for new physics, which are aimed at providing a more efficient flow of scientific information between the experimental collaborations and the rest of the high energy physics community, and at facilitating the interpretation of the results in a wide class of models. Implementing these recommendations would aid the full exploitation of the physics potential of the LHC.
Highlights
We present a set of recommendations for the presentation of LHC results on searches for new physics, which are aimed at providing a more efficient flow of scientific information between the experimental collaborations and the rest of the high energy physics community, and at facilitating the interpretation of the results in a wide class of models
It is our purpose here to formulate a set of recommendations that could act as guidelines for the documentation and use of the LHC results, in a form that would be most useful to the community at large, and that would help to maximize the scientific output of the LHC
The most crucial information such as basic object definitions and event selection should be clearly displayed in the publications, preferably in tabular form, and kinematic variables utilised should be unambiguously defined
Summary
The ATLAS and CMS collaborations are providing detailed experimental results [1, 2] of searches in many different channels They are providing interpretations in terms of popular models, such as the CMSSM, or in terms of Simplified Models.. Similar non-collaboration efforts to interpret Higgs search results [24, 25] in a large variety of BSM scenarios are underway. These examples illustrate the community’s interest in the LHC experimental results—interest that will surely grow as results become more comprehensive and readily available. The goal is to help the community make the most of an extraordinary scientific opportunity
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