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We present Pheasant, a framework for the analysis process in High Energy Physics (HEP). It uses PheasantQL, the first domain specific visual query language for HEP analysis. This allows us to express complex decay queries easily with no programming efforts, abstracting the storage and optimization details. The currently existing tools overburden users with many complex details and intricacies. A small scale assessment conducted with a prototype demonstrates the effectiveness of our technique.
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Amaral, V., Helmer, S., Moerkotte, G. (2004). PHEASANT: A PHysicist’s EAsy ANalysis Tool. In: Christiansen, H., Hacid, MS., Andreasen, T., Larsen, H.L. (eds) Flexible Query Answering Systems. FQAS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3055. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25957-2_19
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