This is a
description of the LHCb document collections in the CERN
Document Service (CDS) database. The current snapshot of the
LHCb collections is as follows:
LHCb
LHCb Analysis Notes
LHCb Conference Contributions
LHCb Conference Proceedings
LHCb Internal Notes
LHCb Photos
LHCb Public Notes
LHCb Talks LHCb Theses
| LHCb Analysis Notes | |
| Report name: | LHCb-ANA |
| Description: | Any public result from LHCb, either in the form of a preliminary result or publication, have comprehensive internal documentation in the form of one or more analysis notes. These notes are only accessible to members of the collaboration and form the basis for the approval of results. |
| Authorship: | The proponents of the analysis/measurements. |
| Comments: | Only accessible to members of the LHCb
Collaboration. |
| LHCb Conference Contributions | |
| Report name: | LHCb-CONF |
| Description: | Conference notes is the public written documentation of a preliminary result presented at a conference. They contain a short write-up of the analysis and go through the internal referee process of the collaboration. |
| Authorship: | LHCb Collaboration |
| Comments: | Entered only after substantial internal refereeing. It is expected that each LHCb-CONF will end up being the basis of a publication. However, a publication may take results from more than one LHCb-CONF. |
| LHCb Conference Proceedings | |
| Report name: | LHCb-PROC |
| Description: | These follow the rules described here, linked on the SB web page: https://lhcb.web.cern.ch/lhcb_page/collaboration/organization/editorial_board/conference_proceedings.html |
| Authorship: | No authorlist. |
| Comments: | Authors: No authorlist. EP approval: Not required, no CERN-EP number. |
| LHCb Internal Notes | |
| Report name: | LHCb-INT |
| Description: | Internal notes |
| Authorship: | The individual(s) who wrote the note. |
| Comments: | Only accessible to members of the LHCb Collaboration. |
| LHCb Reviewed Internal Notes | |
| Report name: | LHCb-INT |
| Description: | Reviewed Internal notes. The names of the people who reviewed the notes must be given |
| Authorship: | The individual(s) who wrote the note. |
| Comments: | Only accessible to members of the LHCb Collaboration. |
| LHCb Papers | |
| Report name: | LHCB-PAPER |
| Description: | The final publications of physics results from the collaboration. |
| Authorship: | LHCb Collaboration |
| Comments: |
| Open Data Papers | |
| Report name: | No LHCb note number |
| Description: | Papers which
analyse LHCb open data. The rules are given in the policy
document "CERN Open Data Policy for LHC Experiments:
Implementation Plan November 2020". Available at https://indico.cern.ch/event/976845/ |
| Authorship: | Not
signed by LHCb authors, unless not physics related and
specifically approved by the CB. |
| Comments: | Review: Not reviewed by the collaboration
EP approval: Not required, no CERN-EP number |
| Theoretical/ Phenomenology Papers or Physics Review Papers |
|
| Report name: | No LHCb note number |
| Description: | These are
physics papers that do not rely on the analysis of LHCb
data or simulation. They typically suggest new theoretical
approaches or analysis techniques relevant to LHCb or
review the state of a research field where LHCb is contributing. |
| Authorship: | Signed
by individual LHCb members, and/or others, independently
of LHCb collaboration. |
| Comments: | Review: Papers that include projections
for LHCb performance or sensitivity, should be sent to the Physics coordinator and Editorial Board chair for comments prior to being posted on the arXiv or submitted to the journal. This rule is reproduced from ‘LHCb Publication Procedure’s available on the EB web site. EP approval: Not required, no CERN-EP number. |
| R&D Papers – no LHCb resources | |
| Report name: | No LHCb note number |
| Description: | These are papers proposing or testing detector technology or software algorithms that may have relevance to LHCb and are signed by LHCb members. |
| Authorship: | Signed
by individual LHCb members, and/or others, independently
of LHCb collaboration. |
| Comments: | Papers that do not rely on the analysis of
LHCb centrally taken data or simulation, software or
technical infrastructure are published purely at the
discretion of the authors. Papers that make a statement that
a technology will be used in LHCb, should be sent to the
relevant project leader(s), spokesperson and Technical
Coordinator for comments prior to being posted on the arXiv
or submitted to the journal. EP approval: Not required, no CERN-EP number. |
| R&D Papers – LHCb resources |
|
| Report name: | No LHCb note number, unless the LHCb-DP review process below is followed. |
| Description: | These are papers proposing or testing detector technology or software algorithms that will, or may, have relevance to LHCb and utilise LHCb centrally taken data or simulation, software or significant amounts of technical infrastructure. |
| Authorship: | To be determined by the project leader appropriate to the scope of the paper, it may be the full members of the project or a smaller number of authors. Non-LHCb members may also be authors. The wider group of people in LHCb working in the area of the paper, or who provided substantive resources (simulation, data-taking or infrastructure) on which it relies, should be consulted by the project leader when considering the author list. |
| Comments: | Review: The paper should be reviewed
inside the relevant project. The spokesperson should be
informed by the project leader that this light review
process is being followed. The project leader should steer
the review, or appoint someone to do so. In the case that
the paper cuts across several projects, the Operations
Coordinator or Technical Coordinator may take this role. If the paper is considered by the project leader of sufficient importance that a DP number should be assigned, the review procedure of LHCb Detector Description or Detector Performance Papers (below) should be followed. Submitted to a journal by the project leader, or a lead author appointed by the project leader. EP approval: optional, CERN-EP number optional. |
| LHCb Detector Description or Detector Performance Paper | |
| Report name: |
Obtains an LHCb-DP number
(DP, detector paper, but also applicable to software)
and is linked on the LHCb
web page. |
| Description: | These are papers describing a sub-detector or software project (or substantial components thereof) or its performance. These may well be intended to be a reference in LHCb publications. |
| Authorship: | Signed
by members of the project(s) with an author list
determined by the Project Leaders(s). Submitted to the journal by the Project Leader or a lead author appointed by the Technical Coordinator or Operations Coordinator. |
| Comments: | Review: These follow the rules ‘Rules for
the preparation of Detector Performance Papers’ available
from the EB web page. In brief, a review is performed inside
the relevant projects and by members of the TB, with
sign-off by the Spokesperson. For software project related
papers, or those not directly related to one project, it may
be more appropriate for the Operations Coordinator to steer
the process, at the discretion of the Spokesperson. Where TB
members are not best suited any two other senior
knowledgeable members of the collaboration may be appointed by the Operations Coordinator. If the paper is more minor in scope then the lighter procedure described above of ‘R&D papers-LHCb resources’, potentially with a restricted author list, may be followed at the discretion of the Spokesperson. In this case the paper does not receive an LHCb-DP number. If the scope of the paper is the full LHCb detector then the full collaboration sign the paper and the review procedure follows that of CONF notes EP approval: encouraged, CERN-EP number encouraged. |
| LHCb Physics Related Performance Papers | |
| Report name: | LHCb note numbers: Obtains an LHCb-DP number (DP, detector paper, but also applicable to software) and is linked on the LHCb web page |
| Description: | These are
papers describing an analysis of LHCb data or simulation
that provide the measurement of quantities of relevance to
LHCb physics. An example would be the determination of
efficiencies that will be used in physics publications. |
| Authorship: | For papers that are expected to be cited by a number of LHCb physics publications the full collaboration is expected to be authors. For more focused papers of relevance only to a single, or small number, of physics papers a limited author list may be appropriate at the discretion of the Physics Coordinator or Operations Coordinator. |
| Comments: | Review: For papers with the full
collaboration author list the review procedure follows that
of CONF
notes. For a limited author list, the Physics Analysis or Physics Performance WG conveners organize the review, and approve the document. The final approval for submission of the document is given by the Physics Coordinator or Operations Coordinator. EP approval: encouraged, CERN-EP number encouraged. |
| LHC Working Group Publications |
|
| Report name: | |
| Description: | These are
joint publications among two or more LHC experiments:
LHC
working groups. The following guidelines have been devised in collaboration with the other LHC experiments. |
| Authorship: | For limited-authorship papers, the
responsibility of defining the authorship of any given
document is with the LHC WG conveners. |
| Comments: | (1) Documents producing new measurements
or data combinations should be signed by the full
collaborations unless the collaboration decides that the
topic is of limited interest and prefers not to submit it to
a journal. Reinterpretations of published data are subject to the publication guidelines in place for the individual members of the LHC Collaborations and are in any case allowed when the collaborations decide not to submit dedicated experimental papers on the topic. (2) Documents reporting studies that are only using simulation without experimental data, and/or with usage of data being limited to comparisons of existing published results with theory predictions (that would not fall under the first case), can be signed by a limited number of authors. The publication committees of the related experiments have to be informed. When experiment internal tools (e.g. MC samples or software) or information are used, the collaboration should first approve the results and release a public note with the relevant plots which can be eventually added, properly referenced, in the limited authorship paper. |
| LHCb Public Notes | |
| Report name: | LHCb-PUB |
| Description: | The final publications of physics results from the collaboration. |
| Authorship: | The individual(s) who wrote the note. |
| Comments: | Publically accessible. Widely used before real data became available. However, public notes are not permitted to use unpublished LHCb data (they mostly describe Monte Carlo studies) so will become less frequent, although they are still allowed for technical notes on the different subsystems. |
| LHCb Talks | |
| Report name: | LHCb-TALK |
| Description: | Presentations (in the form of slides) given at conferences. |
| Authorship: | The individual wrote gave the talk, usually "on behalf of the LHCb Collaboration" (but can also be on behalf of other groups within the collaboration, for technical talks). |
| Comments: |
| LHCb Theses | |
| Report name: | CERN-THESIS |
| Description: | Thesis |
| Authorship: | The individual who wrote the thesis. |
| Comments: | Entered into the LHCb collection because the thesis concerns LHCb. |
| LHCb Publicity plots | |
| Report name: | LHCb-FIGURE |
| Description: | Approved publicity plots |
| Authorship: | LHCb collaboration |
| Comments: | This category replaces the twiki pages describing approved and publicity plots. This category is managed by the operations coordinator. |
| LHCb Miscellaneous | |
| Report name: | Not needed, as only a temporary repository. |
| Description: | |
| Authorship: | Depends on the type of document. |
| Comments: |
This is a new collection to be set
up, not yet existing. Hopefully it will normally only
have few entries. |
As far as I am aware,
all of these collections should be public, except for LHCb
Internal Notes (and
LHCb Analysis Notes). We have other restricted collections
that don't appear in the above list, called "LHCb Publication
Drafts", which are used for the internal review of documents
before they are entered into the public collections.
Roger Forty (4 June 2010)
Ulrik
Egede (revised on 28 July 2011 and 6 February 2013)
Patrick Koppenburg (6 May 2019)
Silvia Gambetta, Franz Muheim, Chris Parkes, Matteo Palutan, Niels Tuning (24 February 2022)