[Rivet] Rivet/MCplot - getting into some ALICE analyses...

[Antonin Maire]

Hi Peter,

   I will come back to you hopefully after Tuesday, with some more 
detailed answers.
(I am in a rush at the moment. Héhé...)

Have fun,
     Antonin


On 04/04/2013 14:38, Peter Skands wrote:
> Hi Antonin,
>
> Apologies for the delay in answering - I was away for a long holiday 
> over Easter. All the identified-particle analyses you mention sound 
> interesting to get in Rivet (in cc). Strangeness (and multistrange) 
> fractions are a hot topic, and as you know there are indications that 
> they are nontrivial to get right even in pp, so this would definitely 
> add valuable constraints on the MC models. You can add "also for 
> Peter" on the Xi and Omega yields, since I am also highly interested 
> in those :) I'm less of an expert on J/psi myself, but it is certainly 
> interesting from the point of view of being both clean experimentally 
> and an interesting probe of onium formation.
>
> I do have access to some limited funds via the LPCC. I'm not sure yet 
> how much support we could get but a few weeks does not sound 
> impossible. Otherwise, I also have some funds via MCnet, that it might 
> be possible to make use of.
>
> What would be the time scale for the projects?
>
> Peter
>
> On 3/11/13 11:54 AM, Antonin Maire wrote:
>> Good morning Peter,
>>
>>      I come back to you with a question related to MCplot/Rivet (a 
>> n^th time...).
>> Since quite some time, I wanted to come into the Rivet business; it 
>> could happen
>> that I finally come into this over the next months.
>>
>> In Heidelberg, bachelor students have to perform a 3-month training 
>> period in
>> the frame of their degree course.
>> I would like to work with one of them on a Rivet project.
>> As an alternative, some PhD students around me expressed some 
>> interest for this
>> kind of work.
>>
>> My idea at the moment would that we work essentially from Heidelberg 
>> but also
>> try to spend 1-2 weeks at CERN at some point.
>> Given my current activities and the ones of the ALICE group in 
>> Heidelberg, I
>> could think about different topics to be rivetized :
>>
>> - J/psi cross-section = f(particle multiplicity) in pp 7 TeV
>>      ALICE, PLB, http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.2816
>>
>> - intra-jet cross-sections of K0s and Lambda in pp
>>      (ongoing PhD, on Pb-Pb data though.)
>>
>> - Xi and Omega yields in pp 7 TeV...
>>      (ALICE PLB http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.0282 ... rather for me)
>>
>> I would like to know if such topics may be of some interest for the 
>> MC community
>> and in case, what is the status of your funding possibility, say for 
>> 2 people,
>> 1-2 weeks at CERN.
>> (Heidelberg group may be able to contribute if needed.)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>      Antonin

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