"Preliminary" results

[dguest]

A lot of experiments publish "preliminary" results (PUB notes, PAS notes, CONF notes, etc) which are hardly preliminary. Many of these don't have a followup paper, and probably never will. Should we be adding these as well?

I'd argue that we should, they are harder to find since they don't end up on the arxiv, but they are very well done in most cases.

[bnachman]

Hi @dguest,

I completely agree - we should definitely include them. In fact, you can see that many of them are on there. I think that this is one of the important utilities of this page, given that as you say, they are generally hard to find.

Sincerely,
Ben

[matthewfeickert]

We can start by migrating all the PUB notes from the ATLAS Machine Learning Forum public results listing that aren't already listed. We should also invite CMS to do the same. @pseyfert, does LHCb have a similar listing?

[pseyfert]

I'm afraid we don't have such a nice listing for pub notes. That would require digging relevant notes out of the cds search https://cds.cern.ch/search?cc=LHCb+Notes&m1=a&jrec=11&op1=a&ln=en. And since operations doesn't have as strict rules about existing pub notes / papers as we have in physics, I'm worried that conference proceedings might even be more interesting than the pub notes :( (btw I like @dguest's suggestion and would like to add that even if a pub note is followed by a paper, having the pub note listed during the time (year?) until the paper is available as preprint is important to spread the word!)