[Rivet] [Rivet-svn] r1977 - in trunk: data/anainfo data/plotinfo src/Analyses

[Andy Buckley]

Frank Siegert wrote:
> Andy Buckley, Monday 02 November 2009:
>> I've been thinking about the naming of these MC_* analyses, and the
>> accelerator seems to be irrelevant in a lot of them. Any ideas on what
>> would be a better scheme? Is there anything that makes this analysis
>> very specifically for pp rather than ppbar (other than the setBeams
>> declaration)*? Certainly there are plenty of MC analyses that I've
>>  added which would be better named something like MC_VAL_*...
> 
> Good point. The only difference the accelerator makes is the range in 
> which you would look at observables and maybe some cuts, all basically 
> related to E_cms. So to use it for different accelerators, we would 
> probably need the information about E_cms. Didn't we talk about wanting to 
> move the beam-info extraction to before init anyway such that we could 
> book histograms based on that information? Maybe this here is another good 
> motivation for it.

Yes, I thought of mentioning this but want to keep that beam info stuff 
for a future release: it's a nice API feature to improve, but unless I 
get bored enough to do it before release I think it should wait, rather 
than delay 1.2.0.

> Do you remember, and do you think it's something we want (i.e. that is 
> feasible) for this release already? I have to admit that I haven't looked 
> at it in detail yet.

Me neither... see above for my thoughts re. this and the release. 
However, me getting bored and fixing it is possible, since I have some 
other wishlist items that affect the same bits of code, and which I do 
want to get into this release.

>> [*] I'm thinking of moving the list of accepted beams into the metadata
>> for a future release: any thoughts?
> 
> I don't mind (/care).

Thanks... it's essentially cosmetic, but as with other such things, 
might allow deletion/fumigation of some rather smelly internal code.

Andy

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Dr Andy Buckley
SUPA Advanced Research Fellow
Particle Physics Experiment Group, University of Edinburgh