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Making Digital Objects FAIR in High Energy Physics: An Implementation for Universal FeynRules Output (UFO) Models

by Mark S. Neubauer, Avik Roy, Zijun Wang

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Authors (as registered SciPost users): Avik Roy
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Preprint Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.09752v4  (pdf)
Code repository: https://github.com/Neubauer-Group/UFOManager
Data repository: https://github.com/Neubauer-Group/UFOMetadata
Date accepted: 2023-04-18
Date submitted: 2023-03-17 03:51
Submitted by: Roy, Avik
Submitted to: SciPost Physics Codebases
Ontological classification
Academic field: Physics
Specialties:
  • High-Energy Physics - Experiment
  • High-Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Approaches: Experimental, Computational

Abstract

Research in the data-intensive discipline of high energy physics (HEP) often relies on domain-specific digital contents. Reproducibility of research relies on proper preservation of these digital objects. This paper reflects on the interpretation of principles of Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability (FAIR) in such context and demonstrates its implementation by describing the development of an end-to-end support infrastructure for preserving and accessing Universal FeynRules Output (UFO) models guided by the FAIR principles. UFO models are custom-made python libraries used by the HEP community for Monte Carlo simulation of collider physics events. Our framework provides simple but robust tools to preserve and access the UFO models and corresponding metadata in accordance with the FAIR principles.

List of changes

- Included clickable link for HEPData, ROOT, MadGraph, Sherpa, Pythia, and Herwig
- Modified the statement about collaboration-maintained data and software to "While collaborations facilitate the preservation of their data and common software frameworks for usage both within and outside of the collaboration1, preservation of digital resources independently developed by smaller research groups or individuals is equally important to be able to reproduce the results from HEP research."
- Removed the second instance of introducing the acronym BSM

Published as SciPost Phys. Codebases 13 (2023) , SciPost Phys. Codebases 13-r2.0 (2023)

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Avik Roy  on 2023-03-17  [id 3490]

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We would like to thank the reviewer for the follow-up comments. We have implemented the suggestions, details below-

Clickable links are provided throughout the text for some repositories or tools, but not for all. For example, links are given for NNPDF Collaboration, github and Zenodo, but not for HEPData or MC simulation tools. This should be systematically.

We included clickable links for HEPData, ROOT, MadGraph, Sherpa, Pythia, and Herwig.

The introduction states that "While collaborations facilitate the internal preservation of their data and common software frameworks for collaboration-wide usage, preservation of digital resources independently de- veloped by smaller research groups or individuals is equally important to be able to reproduce the results from HEP research. " This gives the impression that data and software preservation by large experimental collaborations is for collaboration-internal use only. This is utterly misleading to my mind. There is huge benefit of making this material open to the public; results from HEP research shouldn't be reproducible only within the collaborations but by the whole HEP community. Please revise!

We have modified the statement to "While collaborations facilitate the preservation of their data and common software frameworks for usage both within and outside of the collaboration1, preservation of digital resources independently developed by smaller research groups or individuals is equally important to be able to reproduce the results from HEP research."

The acronym BSM is defined more than once.

We removed the second instance of introducing the acronym BSM