[Rivet] Rivet 1.2.1 patch release

[Andy Buckley]

I forgot one very important thing: this Rivet patch release also, as a
bonus, includes an implementation of the first ATLAS minimum bias
analysis. Submissions from other experiments are also very, very welcome!

Best wishes,
Andy


On 23/03/10 23:54, Andy Buckley wrote:
> Following on from the recent release of Rivet 1.2.0, we announce the
> release of a patch release, version 1.2.1, which fixes a significant bug
> in the FastJet projection whereby the minimum pT parameter was not being
> properly passed to the jet algorithm. Jet-specific analyses may be
> affected. Thanks to Frank Siegert for finding and fixing this bug.
> 
> Rivet 1.2.1 also contains a new "MissingMomentum" projection, to be used
> for calculating missing (transverse) energy in place of the previous and
> confusing TotalVisibleMomentum projection which made no effort to
> exclude invisible particles. A bug in the MC_SUSY analysis, with exactly
> this flaw, has also been fixed.
> 
> Rivet 1.2.1 is recommended for immediate use as a replacement for 1.2.0,
> and can be downloaded as usual from the
> http://projects.hepforge.org/rivet/ Web page. Apologies for the short
> time between these releases, but this was a problem that we couldn't
> leave "in the wild" for very long!
> 
> Best wishes,
> Andy
> 


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