WatchMan project-A Python CASE framework for High Energy Physics data analysis in the LHC era

Journal of Computational Science

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 325-333

  Bianchi, Riccardo Maria ^a   Brunelière, Renaud ^b  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer aided software engineering; Data analysis; High Energy Physics; Large Hadron Collider; LHC; Physics framework; Python

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS ALGORITHMS; COMPLEX SOFTWARE; LARGE HADRON COLLIDER; LEARNING CURVES; LHC; PHYSICS ANALYSIS; PYTHON; SOFTWARE FRAMEWORKS;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; DATA REDUCTION; EXPERIMENTS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES;

EID: 84883385378     PISSN: 18777503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocs.2012.04.005     Document Type: Article

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