[Rivet] Binning problems in ALEPH 1996 analysis

Jonathan Butterworth jmb at hep.ucl.ac.uk
Thu Jul 3 10:59:32 BST 2008


My opinion is that Rivet should stick to identical binning with the 
publications it is comparing to.

Cheers,
Jon

Hendrik Hoeth wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to run the ALEPH_1996_S3486095 analysis which Holger put in svn.
> When I made comparison plots (MC vs data) I realized that the aida data
> and MC files have different binnings in tables 25, 26, 27. The problem
> is that there are holes in the data binning, e.g. between 0.018000 and
> 0.045000 in table 25. Rivet books a continuous histogram, i.e. it fills
> the holes such that there are additional bins in MC.
> 
> I think we should make Rivet stick to the original binning. What's you
> oppinion?
> 
>    Hendrik
> 

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