[Rivet] Presentation of Event Shapes results

[Peter Skands]

Hi,

Thanks for the quick replies.

@Hendrik: I looked for a CDF event shape analysis in the Rivet documentation on 
the web but so far could only find the CMS one. Can you point me to the CDF one 
you say you have with points read off the plots? Sorry if I am just being blind. 
In any event, it would be better to get the officially blessed data points.

@Sergo: HEPDATA is a quite useful web repository for experimental results. 
Perhaps you have sometimes seen links associated with experimental papers on 
SPIRES like this

    Reaction Data (Durham)

such as in this CDF entry, for instance,
http://inspirebeta.net/search?ln=en&p=FIND+IRN+4155203&action_search=Search

That kind of link is to the HEPDATA repository, which is located in Durham. 
Among others, Monte Carlo tools use that database extensively for testing and 
tuning purposes. In general, HEPDATA accepts data in a wide variety of formats. 
Any kind of standard vector of points such as a list of,

  xlo   xhi    y    stat-   stat+   sys-   sys+    ....

should be ok, nothing fancy is needed. If you can provide lists such as that for 
any of the plots in the paper, the person to send them to is Mike Whalley, 
M.R.Whalley at durham.ac.uk (cc here), who is in charge of HEPDATA. If my example 
above is inaccurate, he can inform you as to the optimal format.

Hoping to soon be able to compare lots of models to this data!

Cheers,
Peter

On 6/3/11 6:52 PM, Hendrik Hoeth wrote:
> Thus spake Peter Skands (peter.skands at cern.ch):
>
>>    A) Are the data *points* public, or just the plots?
>>
>>    B) If the points are public, are they in HEPDATA?
>
> The points (read off the plots) are in Rivet. It would be very nice to
> get an official version.
>
>>    C) If they are in HEPDATA, is there a corresponding Rivet analysis
>> that is (or could be) incorporated in the official Rivet releases,
>> so everyone can make direct comparisons?
>
> Yes, it's in (and has already been in 1.5.0).
>
> Cheers,
>
>      Hendrik
>