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Using the Open Event Generation Data
The event generation open data is available in the HEPMC2 format, which is a text-based event generator record. Each file of around 10,000 events is compressed to save disk space. The notebook provides a brief introduction to reading the events and making use of them in a variety of ways.
Contact: atlas-outreach-opendata-support[at]cern[dot]ch
Keywords: cern, atlas, open, data, event generation, hepmc2, sinple parametric simulation
Target audience: researchers
Resource type: Notebook
Status: Active
Learning objectives:
In this notebook, you will learn:
- How to search the open event generation samples, identify the samples you are interested in, and get files from them
- How to inspect files from the samples and understand the event generator records
- How to make simple histograms from the input files
- How to run a simple parametric simulation using the files as input and examine the simulated output
Date created: 2025-09-17
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