[Rivet] AGILe

[Andy Buckley]

On 15/06/10 16:46, Frank Siegert wrote:
> 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.

We "fixed" this today -- the quotes because the best that I can do is to
ignore these plots with non-numeric x-values... there's no way to
position them on a scatter plot!

Anyway, all these data formats (and a few more) should now work:
http://hepdata.cedar.ac.uk/view/irn8625980/aida
http://hepdata.cedar.ac.uk/view/irn8625980/pyroot
http://hepdata.cedar.ac.uk/view/irn8625980/root

Andy

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