[Rivet] WFinder

Jon Butterworth jmb at hep.ucl.ac.uk
Mon Jul 20 11:32:32 BST 2015


Sorry, I missed this - my answer would have bee yes though!
Jon

On 07/07/2015 16:55, Chris Pollard wrote:
> Hi Jon,
>
>     On the before/after hadronisation, if you could fully reconstruct a
>     B- of c-hadron decay (which I think would be the main problems), I
>     think you could tell what it was, hence its mass, hence know the
>     neutrino 4-momentum in the hadron rest frame?
>
>     I know, it makes me uncomfortable too. But "in principle..."
>
>
> Would including final state leptons and neutrinos from hadron decays in
> the MET definition do what you want here? That should take any unstable
> hadron four-momenta into account correctly without double counting. It's
> perfectly possible to implement currently as well---perhaps it should
> even be in the default MET definition?
>
> Or maybe I misunderstood your point. Sorry if so!
>
> Chris

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