[Rivet] Slides

[Andy Buckley]

On 27/06/13 15:33, Holger Schulz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was asked to give a short talk for the phenomenology group (Uwer)
> in our department. Does someone have promotional slides showing what
> the package can in principle do, possibly including the latest changes,
> which I'm afraid had no time to follow up on?

Hi Holger,

I don't have any sales-pitch material myself, but maybe there's
something in the tutorial slides on the website that could be usable.

Here are a few ideas for promotional points:

* generator-independence
* automatic caching (speed benefits when running many analyses)
* large collection of standard LHC, Tevatron, etc. analyses
* extensible with runtime plugins -- no need to rebuild
* scripts for high-quality plotting (including automatic comparison of
different models to each other and to data) and automatic preparation of
web pages for easy plot display and exploration
* helper tools for W and Z reconstruction, etc.
* latest (beta) version stores lots of statistical information for run
combination: we have well-advanced plans connected to this for *really*
general run combining, reweighting vectors, handling of NLO
counter-weight issues, etc. etc.
* handy helper features for e.g. heavy hadron and (non-)prompt final
state particle classification
* other developments: better jet tagging facilities, powerful kinematic
cuts system, decay chain interrogation, ...

Enough?

Andy

-- 
Dr Andy Buckley, Royal Society University Research Fellow
Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Edinburgh / PH Dept, CERN