Publication Date

2026

Document Type

Dissertation/Thesis

First Advisor

de la Torre Perez, Hector

Degree Name

M.S. (Master of Science)

Legacy Department

Department of Physics

Abstract

RNTuple is the new data storage format set to replace TTree at the start of the High-Luminosity LHC. An investigation was conducted to evaluate how analysis workflows for ATLAS researchers will change with RNTuple, using reading speed, writing speed, disk space, and memory consumption as metrics. In this study, all metrics were measured using converted RNTuple inputs from ATLAS Open Data, compared to their TTree equivalents. Additionally, RNTuples produced with the LZ4 compression algorithm were generated and compared with those produced using ZSTD. Finally, two new versions of the Analysis Grand Challenge (AGC) using ATLAS Open Data were completed for TTree and RNTuple inputs with RDataFrame in Python. This constitutes the first implementation of an end-to-end analysis completed using RNTuple.

Extent

67 pages

Language

en

Publisher

Northern Illinois University

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In Copyright

Rights Statement 2

NIU theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from Huskie Commons for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without the written permission of the authors.

Media Type

Text

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Physics Commons

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