Offline Challenge: Data-driven QCD estimation

Overview

Teaching: 0 min
Exercises: 60 min

Questions

• Is it possible to estimate the QCD contribution from data?

Objectives

• Implement a simple data-driven method for QCD estimation

Data-driven QCD estimation

These comments in the original plot.py script, assert the possibility of estimating the QCD contribution in our analysis.

To give you a head-start, this version of the plot.py will work with the output of the final version of our EventLoopAnalysis.cxx code. Your task consists of modifying the latter code so we can complete the final plots by adding the QCD background.

Final plots should look like:

Key Points

• The QCD multijet background can be estimated using a data-driven approach