[Rivet] Rivet 1.8.3b1 available for mcplots testing

[Anton Karneyeu]

Andy,

these messages are not new to 1.8.3b1, they were in the previous version 
1.8.2 as well. I am not sure they cause a harm but generate big log 
files. So, I don't have anything against the release.

Cheers,
Anton


2013-04-08 16:57, Andy Buckley wrote:
> 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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