[Rivet] Jets in DIS

Andy Buckley andy.buckley at ed.ac.uk
Wed Oct 19 16:40:14 BST 2011


On 19/10/11 12:24, Leif Lönnblad wrote:
> On 2011-10-19 10:04, Hannes Jung wrote:
>> hm, taking just the frist electron might be tricky, as it is not based
>> on physics.
>
> I'm a bit surprised about this discussion. The whole point with rivet is
> to do what the experiments do. H1 had one (or maybe several) very
> specific way of finding the scattered electron. For an H1 analysis, this
> should be reproduced in Rivet. The modular structure of Rivet means that
> we can implement several electron finders (subclasses of DISLepton). A
> given rivet analysis should use the one which corresponds to the one
> used in the experimental analysis. And if the ones included in the rivet
> distribution does not fit a specific analysis, one would have to
> implement a new one. Or am I misunderstanding the discussion?

I don't think you're misunderstanding the discussion, no! So if the HERA 
people on this email can point us to the scattered lepton experimental 
definitions for the few HERA papers implemented in Rivet, we'll happily 
implement them as appropriate.

Cheers,
Andy

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