[Rivet] [Rivet-svn] r3003 - trunk/data/anainfo

Andy Buckley andy.buckley at ed.ac.uk
Sun Mar 6 23:19:25 GMT 2011


I think it would be sensible to reduce the precision of the check on
beam energy matching via an explicit arg on the fuzzyEquals functions here:

http://projects.hepforge.org/rivet/trac/browser/trunk/src/Core/Analysis.cc#L149

how about a relative precision of 1%, or 0.002?

Andy


On 06/03/11 22:41, Hendrik Hoeth wrote:
> Hi Frank,
> 
>>> Not that it matters a lot, but wouldn't it make sense to use the energy
>>> at which actually the bulk of the data was recorded, i.e. 91.2? It wasn't
>>> by accident that 10 out of 13 .info files already had that energy ...
>>
>> Always thought it was 91.25, but if you say it's 91.2 then that's of
>> course what it should be.
> 
> The OPAL_2004 paper for example refers to "91.0-91.5 GeV" with a mean of
> 91.3, but those were late runs (1996-2000) and small integrated
> luminosity. There was also the "1993 energy scan" running at peak-2 and
> peak+2 (in fact +- 1.790 GeV), and some other runs around the peak.
> Nevertheless, the main runs that made it into the large QCD papers were
> at 91.2, and that's what you also find quoted in e.g. the ALEPH_1996 or
> the OPAL_1998 paper.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>     Hendrik
> 


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