[Rivet] WFinder Missing Et

[Deepak Kar]

Hi James,

This thread may be of help:
https://www.hepforge.org/lists-archive/rivet/2015-January/005373.html

Cheers,
Deepak

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:40 PM, James Henderson
<James.Henderson at physics.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was implementing WFinder in my analysis using the afs setup at:
> /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/MCGenerators_lcgcmt67b/rivet/2.2.0/x86_64-slc6-gcc48-opt/
>
> I see that the missing eT cut is not respected by wfinder in that the
> constituentNeutrino eT is often well below the missing eT cut requested in
> the wfinder constructor.
> Looking at
> /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/MCGenerators_lcgcmt67b/rivet/2.2.0/share/sources/src/Projections/WFinder.cc
> (lines 125-131) I see the missingET cut is applied on the scalar sum of the
> visible momentum in the event rather than on the missing momentum.
>
> Should this cut not be applied to the transverse magnitude of the vector sum
> of the total event momentum rather than the scalar sum?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
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