Prerequisites
In order to complete this lesson you need
- ROOT CERN 6.16 or later installed. You can set up ROOT as recommended here.
- The Higgs to tau tau analysis example code installed and running. A stable internet connection to access the input data.
Helpline
Instructions written by Anniina Kinnunen (University of Helsinki) Santeri Laurila (CERN). All example code we use is written by Anniina Kinnunen and Stefan Wunsch (CERN). For questions, please contact Santeri Laurila (firstname.lastname@cern.ch).
Welcome! This lesson will familiarize you with the concept of pileup and explain how to derive and use so-called pileup corrections to ensure correct pileup modeling in your analysis. We will demonstrate this by applying pileup corrections in the Higgs to tau tau analysis example.
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Input data
The data used in this lesson are in pre-processed “NanoAOD” datasets. The method to access them will be explained during the exercise itself.