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CERN Releases LHC Data

Posted by Soulskill on from the insights-in-how-to-destroy-the-universe dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Ever wished you had access to CERN's LHC data to help with your backyard high-energy physics research? Today you're in luck. CERN has launched its Open Data Portal, which makes experimental data produced by the Large Hadron Collider open to the public. "The first high-level and analyzable collision data openly released come from the CMS experiment and were originally collected in 2010 during the first LHC run. This data set is now publicly available on the CERN Open Data Portal. Open source software to read and analyze the data is also available, together with the corresponding documentation. The CMS collaboration is committed to releasing its data three years after collection, after they have been thoroughly studied by the collaboration." You can read more about CERN's commitment to "Open Science" here.

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  1. Huge Change by mbone · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I was told, at a NSF meeting not many months ago, that CERN never makes its data openly available and never would and that US scientists should just plan on getting European collaborators if they want to work on it.

    Now, if we just get ESA to start releasing the Rosetta data...

  2. Huge Change by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Here's the CMS collaboration web front. It has a map showing where the collaborators are - lots in the US

    http://cms.web.cern.ch/content/cms-collaboration