Rivet and the analysis preservation in heavy-ion collisions experiments

TL;DR

This paper discusses Rivet, a framework for comparing experimental data with theoretical models in high-energy physics, emphasizing recent developments for heavy-ion collision analysis and data preservation.

Contribution

It introduces new features in Rivet for heavy-ion collision analysis, enhancing analysis capabilities and data preservation in high-energy physics experiments.

Findings

Implementation of heavy-ion collision analysis features

Enhanced data preservation and analysis documentation

Open points for future development identified

Abstract

The comparison of experimental data and theoretical predictions is important for our understanding of the mechanisms for interactions and particle production in hadron collisions, both at the Large Hadron Collider and at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider experiments. Several tools were ideated to help with that. Rivet (Robust Independent Validation of Experiment and Theory) is a framework that facilitates the comparison between measurements from high-energy physics experiments and Monte Carlo event generators able to produce outputs using the HepMC package. Rivet contains a repository with analysis algorithms developed by experiments, providing analysis documentation and preservation. The recent development of features for the implementation of heavy-ion collision analyses, such as centrality determination, will be presented in this contribution, together with some of the open points still to be addressed.