[Rivet] CMS event shapes from hell

[Andy Buckley]

Hi Holger,

I already notified Xavier about this one -- see Rivet list email history 
:-) It's not to go into this release, for exactly the reasons you noted.

Thanks for dealing with the others,
Andy



On 05/10/15 15:20, Holger Schulz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> so the last analysis to be considered for  rel 2.4.0 is this beauty:
>
>     CMS_2014_I1305624
>
> which comes as 3 files with an external dependency on CLHEP
> in it's own light weight event-shape library of 800 lines of codes.
>
> That's in the header:
>
>     /*  \class EventShape
>     *
>     *  Class that, given the 4-momenta of the objects in the event,
>     *  allows to calculate event shapes (see below)
>     *
>     *  Authors: Matthias Weber                 Date: July/October 2007
>     *
>     */
>
>
> I am very much in favour of sending a strong message to CMS
> and ask them to redo this properly for Rivet 2.5 or so.
> As far as I can see they need thrust, jet hemisphere broadening
> and y23 which are all  perfectly well available already without
> external dependencies.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Holger
>
>
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Dr Andy Buckley, Lecturer / Royal Society University Research Fellow
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