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    Hi Christian,<br>
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    Thanks for the quick reply.<br>
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    One point just to emphasise is that the results can change
    significantly depending on Monte Carlo tunes and param card choices.
    I want to emphasise this because just saying 'Pythia 6' is really
    not enough. I want to make this clear because I know from SUSY
    examples, different choices of for example the matching scale
    produce completely different results.<br>
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    This is why it would be so good to include the actual monte carlo
    cards as well.<br>
    <br>
    Cheers,<br>
    Jamie<br>
    <br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/05/16 14:58, Christian Gütschow
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      Hi Jamie,
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      <div class="">just to comment:</div>
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              <div class="">My particular interest was actually in
                ATLAS_2013_I1190187 as we could never reproduce the
                p_T(lep lep met) distribution and I just saw that there
                was now a rivet implementation. We were not the only
                theory group that had this issue but we could never
                really get to the bottom of it (even after
                correspondance with ATLAS). Unfortunately (unless I've
                missed something) it seems like the file here only
                contains the data and not the validation.<br class="">
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          <div>Unfortunately this one was submitted already ~2 years
            ago, i.e. a long time before we got accustomed to submitting
            validation plots along with the routines.</div>
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          <div>That said, if a routine has already been used to produce
            the curves in the paper, then we usually don’t produce
            separate validation plots and only submit the
            routine/reference data even today.</div>
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              <div class="">In general, we would love to see as much as
                possible! Histograms, with the data vs monte carlo is
                the obvious one. I've just had a random look through
                some of the analyses present and stumbled across
                ATLAS_2015_I1351916. I guess the plots here are just
                what we are looking for but particularly important for
                us is to also know exactly which Monte-Carlo was used (I
                have to admit that I haven't dug up the paper so perhaps
                this is made clear here). In any case, it would be very
                useful to have the information contained in the
                validation directory.<br class="">
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          <div>That’s a good point, I shall make a mental note to check
            that this information is provided somewhere in the legend.
            For this particular case, we used a Pythia6 sample for the
            validation, which I think is described in the paper, but I
            see your point: an informative legend entry won’t hurt. :-)</div>
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            <div class="">Cheers,<br class="">
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          Chris</div>
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              <div class="">On 05/05/16 21:06, Andy Buckley wrote:<br
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                <blockquote type="cite" class="">On 05/05/16 19:28,
                  Jamie Tattersall wrote:<br class="">
                  <blockquote type="cite" class="">Hi Andy,<br class="">
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                    This is potentially a very stupid question..... but
                    where do I find<br class="">
                    validation material (i.e plots) for the Rivet
                    analyses? (I've been<br class="">
                    clicking for a while now but not got anywhere).<br
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                  Hi Jamie,<br class="">
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                  Good question! This is probably something that we
                  should make a systematic point of putting online. For
                  the last year or so, we have managed to get the
                  experiments to supply validation plots along with the
                  code, and those plot sets are in the tarballs at<br
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                  For a lot of the SM ones, there are also fairly
                  up-to-date comparisons against modern generators at
                  <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mcplots.cern.ch/">http://mcplots.cern.ch/</a><br class="">
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                  But we don't yet have a repository of e.g. generator
                  comparisons to all plots on the Rivet website. It is
                  something that we could add, though... just putting
                  our new nightly validation outputs on the website for
                  example.<br class="">
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                  I guess that you are more interested in the BSM
                  analyses, though. What sort of validation would you
                  like to see for those? As you know, they haven't been
                  a major emphasis so far, but that is changing so any
                  input is welcome!<br class="">
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                  Andy<br class="">
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