Status and news

Juraj Smieško (CERN)

Analysis Tools and MC Productions

CERN

9 September 2026

Status and news

  • First meeting after the summer break — last one was on 5 August
  • PyHEP.dev — Birgit presented FCCAnalyses on Monday and is on her way back
  • CHEF — Pantelis is presenting FCC Monte Carlo Productions at the 1st CHEF Plenary Meeting in Bern, 8–9 September
  • DiracX@FCC — mini hackathons continued through the summer
    • Sessions on 12, 18 and 25 August and 8 September, with A. Sailer and B. Wach
    • Started on the DiracX Helm charts — currently debugging their deployment
    • Next session: Mon 15 September, 13:00
  • Analysis Tools & MC Production questionnaire is closed
    • 12 responses covering 10 of the 12 Physics groups
    • Summary and discussion in the next slot today
  • FCCAnalyses — two releases since the last meeting
  • BNL–CERN School on Physics at Future Colliders — we ran a tutorial session at the school (26 August – 4 September, CERN)

MC Production contacts

  • Thanks to the Physics groups for the nominations, and to Michele Selvaggi for collecting them
  • A dedicated training session will be organised for the contacts
    • how to launch productions
    • how to manage dataset requests
  • Still looking for contacts from Global fits & EFT and Precision calculation
Group Contact
HiggsShreyas Bakare (PSI)
TopJuergen Reuter (DESY)
QCD and γγAnthony Badea (Chicago)
BSMSafa Naseem (CERN)
EWLeonardo Toffolin,
Markus Seidel
FlavourVasilisa Guliaeva (CERN)
FCC-hhBirgit Stapf (CERN)
to be confirmed

Towards the first production campaign

  • First serious production campaign planned for the end of October
  • Requirements discussed up to and including the end of October can still be taken into account
    • Anything later will be reflected only in the following campaign
  • We have not yet heard from Global fits & EFT, MC generators, and the Flavour Charm and CPV sub-working groups
    • Input from them is still very welcome
  • The questionnaire will be repeated at some point in the future

Upcoming meetings

  • Next meeting: Wednesday 23 September, 14:00
  • Then 7 and 21 October, 4 and 18 November, 2 and 16 December
    • 7 and 21 October are the last slots that can still feed the first campaign
  • Topics already volunteered
    • EW — event weights, high-dimensional histogramming, multidimensional fitting (Combine, Rabbit)
    • QCD and γγ — event shapes and αS extraction
    • FCC-hh — pile-up studies, HHH developments
  • We are always looking for contributions — please get in touch

Today's agenda