[Rivet] Import new analysis from hepdata: empty aida file

Andy Buckley andy.buckley at cern.ch
Sun Jun 30 19:38:33 BST 2013


On 30/06/13 20:22, Ulla Blumenschein wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I want to import a new analysis, Inspire  1230812 
> and tried the following:
> rivet-mkanalysis ATLAS_2013_S1230812     
> -> empty .aida file, no error message
> rivet-mkanalysis ATLAS_2013_I1230812   
> -> Problem encountered when getting data from HepData
> (http://hepdata.cedar.ac.uk/view/irnNone/aida). No reference data file
> written
> (looks like hepdata entry is not found)
> The hepdata is here and the aida link gives me a non-empty aida.xml file
> which is attached.
> 
> 
> Is there a person who I can contact for ATLAS-related issues?

Hi Ulla,

This looks like a bug in the script: it's obviously not decoding the
Inspire ID correctly -- I'll look into it and the next release should
contain a fix. For now you can just use the XML file that you've
downloaded. Thanks for the report.

Andy

PS. ATLAS Rivet contact details are at
https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/viewauth/AtlasProtected/RivetMCValidation (linked
from the main MC group page at
https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/viewauth/AtlasProtected/MonteCarloWorkingGroup
)

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


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