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by thiagotomei 2988 days ago
That is not true, at least for CMS. All the RAW data taken in pp collisions during 2011 and 2012 - ie the Higgs boson discovery dataset - has been saved in tape. As a general rule, we never delete RAW collision data that actually make it into permanent storage. Of course, data that didn't pass the real-time selection to be recorded in the first place is irrevocably lost.
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So all the data apart from the data that was thrown away?