[Rivet] question of using Rivet. final state radiation and different transverse momentum threshold in ZFinder

Deepak Kar deepak.kar at cern.ch
Thu May 21 15:40:17 BST 2015


Is there a chance that the muons are not sorted by pT?

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 4:35 PM, David Grellscheid
<david.grellscheid at durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi Yu-hsiang,
>
> can you please attach the code files rather than copying them. The
> formatting is all messed up.
>
> Thanks,
>
>   David
>
>
> On 21/05/2015 14:07, Yu-hsiang Chang 張祐祥 wrote:
>>
>> Hi Deepak,
>> Thanks for your reply and suggestion. It works that requires the event has
>> leading muon pT>14 to make the 2 muons have different pT cuts (14 and 9
>> GeV). (the way [1])
>> But later I find another way to do it. I require the 2 muon constituents
>> of Z/gamma to have pT>14 and >9 respectively. (the way[2] )
>> However, once I count the entries in my histogram, I find way [1] gives me
>> 102 events,and  way [2] gives me 111 events.
>> And if I print (use "cout") the leading muon size(the # of leading muon)
>> in way[2](from the more entries we know [2] is the loose
>> requirement),sometime it shows it has "zero" leading muon but it still pass
>> [2].
>> Like
>> below----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Begin processing the 711th record. Run 1, Event 711, LumiSection 1 at
>> 21-May-2015 12:12:24.093 CEST# of leading muon:0# of Z boson:1# of muon from
>> Z:2i:0  i-th muon pT:14.1995i:1  i-th muon
>> pT:12.1323----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> Do you know what happens and why [1] and [2] give 2 numbers?
>> The generator used here is Pythia6 and produce DY to MuMu event.
>> The essential code of my Rivet plugin( [1] and [2] ) is shown in below.
>> Thanks.
>> Yu-hsiang
>>
>> [1] The first way: require the leading
>> muon----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>      void init() {
>>        // Full final state       const FinalState fs(-5.0, 5.0);
>> addProjection(fs, "FS");             // Z finders for muons       const
>> ZFinder zfm(fs, -2.4, 2.4, 9*GeV, PID::MUON, 15*GeV, 1500*GeV);
>> addProjection(zfm, "ZFM");
>>         // leading muon        LeadingParticlesFinalState
>> muonfs(FinalState(-2.4, 2.4, 14.0*GeV));
>> muonfs.addParticleId(PID::MUON);       addProjection(muonfs, "LeadingMuon");
>>        // Histograms      _hist1MZ_of_MuMu            = bookHisto1D(2, 1,
>> 3);// preFSR detector acc
>>      }
>
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