CMS Open Data Visualization with FireworksWeb
Abstract
FireworksWeb is a web-based event display utilizing a C++ ROOT-Eve backend with SAPUI5 frontend for interactive 3D visualization of particle physics events directly in the browser. Building upon ROOT-Eve and RenderCore, it eliminates local software installation while maintaining professional-grade event display capabilities. FireworksWeb is currently deployed for live event monitoring in the CMS control room, demonstrating its reliability for real-time data visualization in production environments. The CMS experiment has made a large amount of collision datasets publicly available through the CERN Open Data portal, which are the valuable resources for education, outreach, and research. We have extended FireworksWeb to enable visualization of these open datasets, making particle physics data accessible to diverse audiences without requiring local software installation. Our prototype implementation includes standalone cameras, event filters, configurable collection settings, and projection controls with fish-eye distortion for cylindrical geometries. The web architecture communicating via CGI enables dataset queries and filtered event selection based on physics criteria. We demonstrate the prototype with CMS Open Data events, discuss the technical architecture, and outline applications for education, public outreach, and exploratory physics analysis.
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BibTeX
@misc{wang2026open,
title = {{CMS Open Data Visualization with FireworksWeb}},
author = {Yuxiao Wang and Alja Mrak-Tadel and Matevž Tadel and Avi Yagil and Mario Masciovecchio and Dmytro Kovalskyi and Sergey Linev},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.35843},
eprint = {2609.35843},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.35843},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - CMS Open Data Visualization with FireworksWeb
AU - Yuxiao Wang
AU - Alja Mrak-Tadel
AU - Matevž Tadel
AU - Avi Yagil
AU - Mario Masciovecchio
AU - Dmytro Kovalskyi
AU - Sergey Linev
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/24
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.35843
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.35843
AB - FireworksWeb is a web-based event display utilizing a C++ ROOT-Eve backend with SAPUI5 frontend for interactive 3D visualization of particle physics events directly in the browser. Building upon ROOT-Eve and RenderCore, it eliminates local software installation while maintaining professional-grade event display capabilities. FireworksWeb is currently deployed for live event monitoring in the CMS control room, demonstrating its reliability for real-time data visualization in production environments. The CMS experiment has made a large amount of collision datasets publicly available through the CERN Open Data portal, which are the valuable resources for education, outreach, and research. We have extended FireworksWeb to enable visualization of these open datasets, making particle physics data accessible to diverse audiences without requiring local software installation. Our prototype implementation includes standalone cameras, event filters, configurable collection settings, and projection controls with fish-eye distortion for cylindrical geometries. The web architecture communicating via CGI enables dataset queries and filtered event selection based on physics criteria. We demonstrate the prototype with CMS Open Data events, discuss the technical architecture, and outline applications for education, public outreach, and exploratory physics analysis.
ER -