[Rivet] Rivet meeting in 5 mins!

[Andy Buckley]

Actually, I got it wrong: we're at 3pm today (as it says at the bottom
of the minutes). So, see you in an hour!

Andy


Andy Buckley wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Meeting in 5 mins; for convenience, here are the various numbers and codes:
>  * DESY phone conference system: +49 40 8998 1390
>  * conf code: 74838 ("rivet") followed by #
>  * Telediscount (UK): 0844 861 3535
> 
> Things to discuss:
> 
>  * Review last meeting (copied below)
>  * Recent activity
>  * W+jets analysis (check status)
>  * D0 W pT analysis (check status)
>  * Validation system
>  * MPI meeting
>  * New Rivet and AGILe interfaces
>  * YODA status
>  * Documenting analyses (run conditions etc.)
>  * Rivet manual
>  * AOB?
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Rivet] Reminder: Rivet meeting today, 2pm UK
> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:26:53 +0100
> From: Andy Buckley <andy.buckley at durham.ac.uk>
> To: rivet <rivet at projects.hepforge.org>
> References: <48F5CA30.8040205 at durham.ac.uk>
> 
> Andy Buckley wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Just a reminder that we'll be having a Rivet phone meeting today.
> 
> And here are some mini-minutes:
> 
>>  * W+jets analysis
> 
> Looks like the eta acceptance cut was wrong, and correcting it brings
> the MC cross-section back below the data. Emily will commit it once
> finished.
> 
>>  * D0 W pT analysis (I think this is solved, and Lars can't make it)
> 
> It seems like the whole "problem" with the W/Z scaled pT spectrum ratio
> was really a problem with how the histograms were being used,
> introducing an extra bin width factor which skewed the distribution.
> Lars has fixed his code now to use a DPS for the ratio. This won't be a
> problem with YODA, of course ;)
> 
>>  * Grid submission: EDS -> gLite, API, etc.
> 
> Piggy-backing off Atlas may not be possible, if the Atlas sites have
> installed Genser in the Atlas sandbox rather than globally. James and
> Frank will check this out, and also investigate cutting down the size of
> our job tarball (removing Boost and most LHAPDF grid files) and whether
> it is possible to send pilot jobs for run-set initialisation of
> generators with hefty init phases (Sherpa, we're looking at you...)
> 
>>  * Validation system
> 
> Frank and Andy will aim to have a simple analysis system by next week's
> meeting. We'll first concentrate on comparison of data files, without
> worrying about the submission details.
> 
>>  * New Rivet and AGILe interfaces
> 
> ADVERT:
> Have a go if you're adventurous! AGILe:bin/agile-rungen and
> Rivet:bin/rivet are the programs, but you'll also need my HepMC
> interface library, which is part of hepmcview:
> http://www.ippp.dur.ac.uk/~buckley/hepmcview-0.3.tar.gz
> You can even pipe directly from agile-rungen into hepmcview!
> 
>>  * YODA status
> 
> YODA will have its first real application for parsing validation output,
> so Andy will make sure that there is enough functionality for this in
> the next couple of days.
> 
> NEXT MEETING:
> 
> Our next meeting will be 3pm on Friday 24th Oct (just before MPI at LHC).
> Usual phone-in details.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andy
> 


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Dr Andy Buckley
Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology
Durham University
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