[Rivet] Problems running an ATLAS analysis published by RIVET

Frank Siegert frank.siegert at cern.ch
Fri Oct 26 14:51:08 BST 2012


Hi Alex,

One follow-up since we just had the same issue in a parallel thread:
For this analysis, you will have to leave Kaon and Lambda stable in
the Monte-Carlo, since the analysis uses cuts on the transverse flight
distance of them.

Cheers,
Frank

On 26 October 2012 00:01, Andy Buckley <andy.buckley at ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> I'll try to get time to look at this, but today and tomorrow are very
> busy days for me. The best place to ask is anyway the Rivet mailing list
> -- I've CC'd that now.
>
> Thanks for letting us know -- we'll get back to you as soon as we can!
> Andy
>
>
> On 24/10/12 19:29, Alex Grecu wrote:
>> Dear Andy,
>>
>> I'm contacting you to ask for some advice regarding the ATLAS analysis
>> ATLAS_2011_I944826 published by RIVET. I ran this Rivet plugin on about
>> 5M events for the Pythia 6 AMBT1, CMS.Z1, Perugia 2011 tunes (mstp(5) =
>> 340, 341, 350) steered by agile-runmc and I get for this plugin lots of
>> NaNs in the AIDA histogram both at 7 TeV and 0.9 TeV. I would contact
>> the original author but I was told he's VERY busy. Could you please let
>> me know if this plugin needs a special setup or am I doing something wrong?
>> The odd thing is that the same plugin gives valid results when fed
>> Pythia 8 (4C, softQCD) generated events!
>> Please, let me know if you need some logs to debug this. I used the
>> rivet 1.8.1, pythia6:426 and pythia8.170 installations from GENSER on
>> lxplus.
>>
>> Thank you in advance!
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Alex
>>
>> PS: LHCb will release very soon the Rivet integration Gaudi algorithm
>> you fathered. Thank you very much for all the help through-out these years!
>
>
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