MadAnalysis 5, a user-friendly framework for collider phenomenology

TL;DR

MadAnalysis 5 is a user-friendly and flexible software framework that enables physicists to perform detailed collider physics analyses efficiently, supporting both Python-based and C++-based workflows.

Contribution

It introduces a new analysis framework with dual modes, combining ease of use with the ability to handle complex analyses in collider phenomenology.

Findings

Supports analysis of Monte Carlo event files

Offers a Python interface for simplicity

Allows detailed C++ analysis implementations

Abstract

We present MadAnalysis 5, a new framework for phenomenological investigations at particle colliders. Based on a C++ kernel, this program allows to efficiently perform, in a straightforward and user-friendly fashion, sophisticated physics analyses of event files such as those generated by a large class of Monte Carlo event generators. MadAnalysis 5 comes with two modes of running. The first one, easier to handle, uses the strengths of a powerful Python interface in order to implement physics analyses by means of a set of intuitive commands. The second one requires to implement the analyses in the C++ programming language, directly within the core of the analysis framework. This opens unlimited possibilities concerning the level of complexity which can be reached, being only limited by the programming skills and the originality of the user.