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[Rivet] A comment on InvMassFinalStateAdam Davison adamd at hep.ucl.ac.ukWed Jun 10 11:24:11 BST 2009
Hi, I've been trying to use the InvMassFinalState class but the interface seems a bit difficult. It returns all particles that could be used to make, for example a Z, excluding duplicates. This means that if there's more than one candidate in an event, it can do some wierd things, like return a list of 3 or 5 particles. This makes it quite hard to apply any further cuts to the candidates, like pt, since in order to identify which particles are actually matching pairs, you have to loop over everything again anyway. The ZFinder, which is the only place in Rivet I saw this being used returns if the size of the list isn't 2. Which unless I've misunderstood, potentially throws away events with good Z candidates in. Adam
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