[Rivet] AGILe

[Frank Siegert]

Hi Sparsh,

Sparsh Navin, Tuesday 15 June 2010:
> Been looking at writing analysis code.

Cool!

> I am trying to adapt existing
> analyses codes to my needs. I have 3 questions -
> 
> 1. ALICE has 3 published papers with spires ID's 8625980, 8624100 and
> 8479623. On the reaction data page on any of these papers, I don't
> understand what P is in ETARAP(P=3). Do you have any idea?

I think this is just some nomenclature to define the selection cuts. 
It's not very clear to me and probably also not very important, as long 
as you know which figure/table in the paper the HepData table 
corresponds to, because there you can find the proper selection 
definition.

> 2. In some of the papers, there is data for two (or 3) different
> energies, is this a problem?

No, look at CDF_2002_S4796047 as an example for one analysis with 
multiple Ecms.

> 3. The link on the top of the page for data from all tables to appear
> in one file in AIDA format doesn't work for
> http://hepdata.cedar.ac.uk/View/8625980 and
> http://hepdata.cedar.ac.uk/View/8624100 while it does for the first
> paper http://hepdata.cedar.ac.uk/View/8479623. However, the
> individual tables are fine. Do I have to manually save them in one
> file?

That seems to be a bug in HepData (which I have not come across before). 
I am cc'ing Mike Whalley (the HepData maintainer) so that he can have a 
look.

Cheers,
Frank