Enabling Open Science with the ATLAS Open Data project at CERN

The ATLAS Open Data project aims to release real data collected from proton--proton collisions at the LHC to the public. These data can then be used for teaching, outreach, science communication and public engagement, as well as scientific research outside the ATLAS Collaboration. The intended target audience is from high-school students upwards. There has been a previous release of 8 TeV ATLAS Open Data, which succeeded in making particle physics more accessible. The purpose of this work is to improve and build upon the first ATLAS Open Data release, by allowing users to study higher-energy 13 TeV collisions. After developing a framework for producing 13 TeV ATLAS Open Datasets in the first half of this project, the second half has gone on to use this framework to produce simplified datasets for all 2015 data and Standard Model Monte Carlo processes with leptonic final states. This has allowed analyses of $Z$-boson, $W$-boson and $ZZ$ diboson candidates. There remains further work to be done on this project, namely extending to more analyses and including Beyond Standard Model processes. One such extension analysis will be $H \rightarrow \gamma\gamma$. SUSY samples could be included as Beyond Standard Model processes.