Systematic analysis of HEP collider data

Abstract

These proceedings outline steps toward a systematic analysis of frontier energy collider data: specifically, those data collected at Tevatron Runs I and II, LEP Run II, HERA Runs I and II, and the future LHC. Algorithms designed to understand the gross features of the data (V ista), to systematically and model-independently search for new physics at the electroweak scale (S leuth), to automate tests of specific hypotheses against those data (Q uaero), to turn an existing full detector simulation into a fast simulation (T urboS im), and to infer the physics underlying any hint observed in the data (B ard) are reviewed. A somewhat non-conventional viewpoint is adopted throughout.