CutLang as an analysis description language for introducing students to analyses in particle physics

Abstract

Abstract The fifth edition of the ‘Computing Applications in Particle Physics’ school was held on 3–7 February 2020, at İstanbul University, Turkey. This particular edition focused on the processing of simulated data from the large hadron collider collisions using an analysis description language and its runtime interpreter called CutLang. 24 undergraduate and 6 graduate students were initiated to collider data analysis during the school. After 3 days of lectures and exercises, the students were grouped into teams of 3 or 4 and each team was assigned an analysis publication from ATLAS or CMS experiments. After 1.5 days of independent study, each team was able to reproduce the assigned analysis using CutLang.