[Rivet] Rivet 1.8.3b1 available for mcplots testing

[Andy Buckley]

Thanks Anton,

Just a check: are these *new* error messages from the LHCb analyses? Or
were they already there with the previous version? If the latter, we
would prefer to release now and fix the warnings on a longer timescale.

The origin of this problem, I think, is that the analysis authors
supplied some slightly crazy manually assembled particle pid:lifetime
tables which we are not sure about. My feeling is that in future we will
provide a better interface for this sort of data (using, or similar to,
HepPDT) but for now we'll keep the code design as it is.

Cheers,
Andy


On 08/04/13 12:17, Anton Karneyeu wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> 
> sorry for late reply.
> I have tested the 1.8.3b1 and do not see any problems.
> 
> The only thing I would like to point is the large number of error
> messages concerning unknown PID in analyses LHCB_2010_S8758301,
> LHCB_2011_I917009 and LHCB_2012_I1119400.
> Attached file is the summary on the rates of errors (2nd column is the
> error message and 1st column is number of times it appears) over all
> runs of 100k events default tune of all generators/versions which we
> have in mcplots. Could you please have a look?
> 
> And I will prepare separate mail on AGILe/Alpgen questions.
> 
> Cheers,
> Anton
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 2013-04-04 11:04, Andy Buckley wrote:
>> Hi again Anton,
>>
>> Have you had a chance to do this testing yet? And any feedback re Alpgen
>> in AGILe?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andy
>>
>>
>> On 23/03/13 17:46, Andy Buckley wrote:
>>> Hi Anton,
>>>
>>> We finally have that promised new version of Rivet 1.8.x for you to
>>> test! A new 1.8.3b1 tarball is available as usual at
>>> http://www.hepforge.org/downloads/rivet -- could you please try it out
>>> and let us know if you seen any obvious problems? Thanks once again :)
>>>
>>> Andy & co
>>>
>>> PS. You asked about getting Alpgen working with PYTHIA6 in 64 builds of
>>> AGILe. I've not seen the problem myself, but as we discussed if you can
>>> send a stand-alone example that works and/or a stack trace, we'll try to
>>> help with debugging / providing a fixed version.
>>>
>>
>>


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