[Rivet] ChargedLeptons including neutrinos?

[Andy Buckley]

Ok, phew. I expect it would have shown up in our validation after the 
change, if there had been any real-world effect... and there was none. 
No problem in having the code double-check, though.

Cheers,
Andy


On 21/09/16 22:29, Markus Seidel wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> I had a look at the ChargedLeptons header file (checked only the cc file
> before) and saw that it already requires a ChargedFinalState, so it was
> fine all the time...
>
> Sorry for generating noise!
> Markus
>
> On 20.09.2016 12:01, Andy Buckley wrote:
>> The ChargedLeptons fix is done -- thanks.
>>
>> I couldn't find a problem with the PromptFinalState prompt-tau option,
>> though. It just defers to the Particle::isPrompt(from_prompt_tau, ...)
>> method and the source of that looks ok to me.
>>
>> Maybe the problem was the documentation and arg names: that option does
>> not *insist* on prompt taus (which would be a job e.g. for TauFinder and
>> Particle::isPrompt()) but rather decides whether leptons from the decay
>> of prompt taus are themselves to be considered prompt. I've tried to
>> improve the docs a bit... but would that explain the behaviour you saw?
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>
>> On 20/09/16 10:40, Andy Buckley wrote:
>>> Hi Markus -- argh! I'll fix that right away. I'll also take a look at
>>> PromptFinalState, since I think you reported that the from_prompt_tau
>>> bool option was not working. These should appear in a new release very
>>> soon: we're just putting the last touches on it.
>>>
>>> Andy
>>>
>>>
>>> On 20/09/16 10:22, Markus Seidel wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> it seems the ChargedLeptons projection asks for Rivet::PID::isLepton
>>>> but
>>>> does not check if the lepton is actually charged...
>>>>
>>>> Expected behaviour would be that one can feed in a generic FinalState
>>>> and gets out only charged leptons.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Markus
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>>>
>>
>>


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Dr Andy Buckley, Lecturer / Royal Society University Research Fellow
Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow