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LHCb Note
Report number	LHCb-PUB-2016-021 ; CERN-LHCb-PUB-2016-021
Title	The PIDCalib package
Author(s)	Anderlini, Lucio (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT)) ; Contu, Andrea (CERN) ; Jones, Christopher Rob (University of Cambridge (GB)) ; Malde, Sneha Sirirshkumar (University of Oxford (GB)) ; Muller, Dominik (University of Manchester (GB)) ; Ogilvy, Stephen (Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare Frascati (IT)) ; Otalora Goicochea, Juan Martin (Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro (BR)) ; Pearce, Alex (University of Manchester (GB)) ; Polyakov, Ivan (Syracuse University (US)) ; Qian, Wenbin (University of Oxford (GB)) ; Sciascia, Barbara (Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare Frascati (IT)) ; Vazquez Gomez, Ricardo (Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare Frascati (IT)) ; Zhang, Yanxi (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))
Submitted by	lhcb.secretariat@cern.ch on 28 Jul 2016
Subject category	Particle Physics - Experiment
Note type	PHYS
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CERN LHC ; LHCb
Abstract	The PIDCalib package is a tool, widely used within the LHCb Collaboration, which provides access to the calibration samples of electrons, muons, pions, kaons and protons. This note covers both theoretical aspects related to the measurement of the efficiency of particle identification requirements, and more technical issues such as the selection of the calibration samples, the background subtraction procedure, and the storage of the data sets in the new data-processing scheme adopted by the LHCb experiment during the second run of the LHC.
Copyright/License	Preprint: (License: CC-BY-4.0)

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