<html dir="ltr"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <style id="owaParaStyle" type="text/css">  P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}</style> </head> <body ocsi="0" fpstyle="1"> <div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000080;font-size: 10pt;">I am not sure what BlackMax does if you set the maximum mass to a higher value than the centre of mass energy. <br> <br> Can you try to run blackmax for the COM = 8 TeV with a maximum mass value of 8TeV? and see if you still have this problem? <br> <br> Cigdem<br> <div><br> <div style="font-size:13px; font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px; font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px; font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px; font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px; font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px; font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px; font-family:Tahoma"><font color="#008000">---------------------------------------------------------------------<br> <a tabindex="0" href="https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/issever">Cigdem Issever</a> <font color="#008000"> </font> <br> University of Oxford </font><font color="#008000"><font color="#008000">@ CERN office 104/1-C14</font> <br> Skype-id: cigdem.issever Oxford Tel: +44-1865-273337 <br> ---------------------------------------------------------------------</font><br> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #000000; font-size: 16px"> <hr tabindex="-1"> <div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF807817"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> Cigdem Issever<br> <b>Sent:</b> 24 February 2015 17:01<br> <b>To:</b> shou@crimson.ua.edu; Email the developers<br> <b>Subject:</b> RE: [Blackmax] Running BlackMax at 8 TeV failed<br> </font><br> </div> <div></div> <div> <div style="direction:ltr; font-family:Tahoma; color:#000080; font-size:10pt">Dear Shaoqi, <br> <br> the parameter file you have send is this the the file which causes the problems? I see that the centre of mass energy in this file is set to 9TeV. Can you send me the file which causes the problem? Or are you just changing the centre of mass energy from 9 to 8 TeV in this file and you end up with problems? <br> <br> I just want to make sure that there is not a typo in the parameter file where you set the CoM to 8 TeV. <br> <br> Best<br> Cigdem<br> <div><br> <div style="font-size:13px; font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px; font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px; font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px; font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px; font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px; font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px; font-family:Tahoma"><font color="#008000">---------------------------------------------------------------------<br> <a tabindex="0" href="https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/issever" target="_blank">Cigdem Issever</a> <font color="#008000"> </font> <br> University of Oxford </font><font color="#008000"><font color="#008000">@ CERN office 104/1-C14</font> <br> Skype-id: cigdem.issever Oxford Tel: +44-1865-273337 <br> ---------------------------------------------------------------------</font><br> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div style="font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-size:16px"> <hr tabindex="-1"> <div id="divRpF126635" style="direction:ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> blackmax-bounces@projects.hepforge.org [blackmax-bounces@projects.hepforge.org] on behalf of Shaoqi Hou [shou@crimson.ua.edu]<br> <b>Sent:</b> 24 February 2015 16:45<br> <b>To:</b> blackmax@projects.hepforge.org<br> <b>Subject:</b> [Blackmax] Running BlackMax at 8 TeV failed<br> </font><br> </div> <div></div> <div> <div dir="ltr"> <div> <div> <div>To whom it may concern,<br> <br> </div> I am a graduate student at the University of Alabama. Recently, I tried to run BlackMax to reproduce the results of Fig. 1 published in the paper JHEP 07 (2013) 178. But unfortunately, BlackMax got stuck when the center of mass energy was set to 8 TeV. If the center of mass energy is 14 TeV or 9 TeV, BlackMax runs successfully. The attachment is the parameter file. Please look into this problem. Thank you!<br> <br> </div> Best wishes<br> <br> </div> Shaoqi Hou<br> <br> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>