[Rivet] ATLAS analysis to be included into Rivet

Hendrik Hoeth Hendrik.Hoeth at cern.ch
Thu Apr 18 14:52:32 BST 2013


Hi James,

Thus spake James Monk (jmonk at cern.ch):

> I tend to agree that including histograms that only give correct
> results when un-weighted events are used is inviting a bit of a
> cock-up at some later time, albeit this is a soft QCD analysis and
> *usually* wouldn't have weighted events.

One use case for weighted events in a soft analysis would be tuning an
NLO generator. Another case would be wanting to fill your favourite UE
analysis in a single run. I frequently generate soft QCD weighted events.

Cheers,

    Hendrik

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