[Rivet] bug in WFinder...?

Andy Buckley andy.buckley at cern.ch
Tue Feb 24 22:09:11 GMT 2015


Thanks Christian,

I didn't know about that one. Now fixed in the trunk. There is another
problem in the current WFinder, specifically that the scalar ET rather
than vector ET is used for the MET cut. Both will be fixed in the next
release.

Andy


On 22/02/15 11:20, Christian Gütschow wrote:
> Dear Rivet authors,
> 
> I've only just realised that if I pass WFinder::TRANSMASS to my WFinder
> constructor, then it does exactly the opposite and uses mass rather than
> transverse mass, cf. line 29 of
> 
> https://rivet.hepforge.org/code/dev/a00875_source.html
> 
> which says:
> 
> _useTransverseMass = (masstype == MASS);
> 
> I couldn't find an active ticket for this yet, but perhaps I just missed
> it...?
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris
> 
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> 
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