[Rivet] Merging of nparton samples

Dominic Hirschbuehl dhirsch at mail.cern.ch
Thu Nov 13 13:03:42 GMT 2014


Hi Andy,

great, this seems to be what I was looking for. I'll try it out and let
you know.

Thanks
  Dominic

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 01:00:10PM +0000, Andy Buckley wrote:
> Quick comment, since I'm teaching: you can give weights to each file for
> merging on the yodamerge command line. Does that solve your problem, if
> you use the xsecs, or something proportional to them, as the merging
> weights?
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
> On 13/11/14 12:56, Chris Pollard wrote:
> > Hi Dominic,
> > 
> >     Yes and no. I need to weight the different histograms during the
> >     merging.
> >     What I have are for example 5 samples:
> >     tt+0p   9.97 pb
> >     tt+1p  10.83 pb
> >     tt+2p   7.72 pb
> >     tt+3p   3.95 pb
> >     tt+4+p  2.58 pb
> >     Now these 5 subsampels need to be merged to one common sample, with
> >     their given xs.
> > 
> > 
> > Right, but if you normalize each histogram to the appropriate xs in
> > finalize(), this shouldn't be a problem. Is this not what you're doing?
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> > 
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Dr Andy Buckley, Royal Society University Research Fellow
> Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow / PH Dept, CERN

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