[Rivet] Herwig 6.510 and AGILe HepMC issues

[David Bjergaard]

Hi,

Was there any resolution to this? Is there any sort of kludge I can use
to get the cross section calculated and working.

Thanks,

    Dave

Frank Siegert <frank.siegert at cern.ch> writes:

> Hi David,
>
> From the header of the Herwig events that you posted it looks like the
> cross section is set to infinity:
>
> C inf inf
>
> This is probably why Rivet refuses to read the events. Now the
> question is why Agile is not setting this cross section correctly, but
> since I'm not familiar with Agile, I'll let somebody else comment on
> that. Could you just try and confirm that Rivet reads this alright if
> you replace all of the infinite C lines with a dummy like
>
> C 100.0 1.0
>
> ?
>
> Cheers,
> Frank
>
> On 23 October 2012 19:59, David Bjergaard <david.b at duke.edu> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm running a local installation of rivet on my laptop, and I've
>> installed a handful of generators by hand (the GENSER bootstrap script
>> didn't work for me).  I can run Pythia6:426 fine, but when I try to run
>> Herwig:6.510 rivet barfs.  I've uploaded notes on the issue here:
>> http://hep-atlas.phy.duke.edu/HerwigIssues
>>
>> If you need me to reproduce this on lxplus, I can, but I need a few days
>> since my lxplus account expired and I'm waiting for the paperwork to be
>> processed before it gets reactivated.
>>
>> I'm sorry if this isn't the right channel for reporting bugs, I noticed
>> that the issue tracker hasn't been updated since 2009, so I wasn't sure
>> if that was still being watched.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>     Dave
>>
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