[Rivet] mcplots

Hendrik Hoeth hendrik.hoeth at cern.ch
Tue May 31 23:31:51 BST 2011


Hi,

we looked at the mcplots today, and there are a few improvements I want
to suggest:

- The error bands in the ratio plots on
  http://mcplots.cern.ch/?query=plots,pp%2Fppbar,uemb-soft,pt,Pythia%208,
  are asymmetric, while the reference data has symmetric errors.

- Can you plot the tick marks in the ratio plots on top of the error
  bands, rather than below?

- Luckily my horizontal screen resolution is 1920 pixel. But on anything
  smaller four plots next to each other aren't nice to navigate. Maybe
  you can let them float?

- Can you put the Rivet histogram ID in the plot, not just the analysis?
  That would make identifying plots you are talking about in your bug
  reports sooooo much easier.

- Many plots have lousy statistics, like the 1960 GeV UE plots or ATLAS
  minbias pT spectra. One doesn't really learn something if the error
  bars are larger than the vertical size of the plot. Any chance you can
  run those with better stats?

Cheers,

     Hendrik

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