[Rivet] LHCB_2010_S8758301 Rivet analysis (no HepPDT dependence)

[Andy Buckley]

Hi Alex, that's great: thanks! Phew, I don't need to work out what to do 
about HepPDT and possibly-clashing PDT tables, now :) I'll pull that 
into the Rivet trunk and do some testing.

Andy


On 18/09/11 14:34, Alex Grecu wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I attach to this message the improved version of the RIVET plugin code
> for the prompt Ks0 production cross-section analysis.
> The main change is that I added (statically) the table of lifetimes as
> used by the LHCb collaboration so there is no need anymore to link
> against the HepPDT library. For the LHCb recipients this code will be
> easily to generate using a script from the package with the Gaudi
> component for RIVET.
> This version of the analysis also uses the correct units as defined in
> RIVET so the scaling constants are no longer hard coded into the plugin
> but used from the Rivet library.
> Last but not least, you'll find in the archive the plots for a 10M
> events run using Pythia 6:421 standalone with the Perugia0 tune as well
> as the corresponding .AIDA file.
> All tests were done exclusively using HepMC 2.06 which will become very
> soon the official version used by the LHCb framework as well.
> Please, let me know if you consider any other modification must be made
> before final release!
>
> Best regards,
> Alex Grecu
>
> PS: The .plot and .info files are unchanged.
> PPS: For the RIVET team. Please, do not forget to strip the final "B"
> from the plugin name before release. As I previously wrote, it is in
> there to distinguish the analysis from the unvalidated one present in
> RIVET 1.6.0.
>
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