<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Good afternoon Prof. Issever,<br><br></div>Thanks for your reply! I also changed the pdf. I do not have 200, so I tried 10550 cteq66, 10042 cteq6l1 and 11000 CT10nlo. BlackMax simulated 10000 events successfully with cteq66 and CT10nlo, but stuck with cteq6l1. It failed to simulate 20000 events with all of them. It looks to me that pdf certainly affects BlackMax. <br><br></div>Best wishes<br><br></div>Shaoqi<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 7:48 AM, Cigdem Issever <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:c.Issever1@physics.ox.ac.uk" target="_blank">c.Issever1@physics.ox.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div> <div style="direction:ltr;font-family:Tahoma;color:#000080;font-size:10pt">Dear Shaoqi, <br> <br> I am sorry that it took me a bit to come back to you. <br> <br> I am able to produced 20000 or 10000 events using your parameter file. <br> <br> I had to use a different PDF because I had difficulties to link LHAPDF with my BlackMax. I used 200 for the pdf settings and was able to produce events without getting it stuck. <br> <br> Can you change to a different PDF and see if it is a problem with the choice of PDF?<span class=""><br> <br> Cigdem<br> <div><br> <div style="font-size:13px;font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px;font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px;font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px;font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px;font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px;font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px;font-family:Tahoma"><font color="#008000">---------------------------------------------------------------------<br> <a href="https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/issever" target="_blank">Cigdem Issever</a> <font color="#008000"> </font> <br> University of Oxford </font><font color="#008000"><font color="#008000">@ CERN office 104/1-C14</font> <br> Skype-id: cigdem.issever Oxford Tel: <a href="tel:%2B44-1865-273337" value="+441865273337" target="_blank">+44-1865-273337</a> <br> ---------------------------------------------------------------------</font><br> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </span><div style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;font-size:16px"> <hr> <div style="direction:ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> Shaoqi Hou [<a href="mailto:shou@crimson.ua.edu" target="_blank">shou@crimson.ua.edu</a>]<br> <b>Sent:</b> 25 February 2015 15:57<br> <b>To:</b> Cigdem Issever<br> <b>Cc:</b> Email the developers<br> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [Blackmax] Running BlackMax at 8 TeV failed<br> </font><br> </div><div><div class="h5"> <div></div> <div> <div dir="ltr"> <div> <div> <div>Hi Prof. Issever,<br> <br> I ran BlackMax with the newest parameter.txt sent to you. BlackMax stalled after about 2 min, 1481 events simulated. No more events were simulated further. Please download the two attachments. Thank you very much!<br> <br> Best Wishes<br> <br> Shaoqi<br> <br> <br> <div class="gmail_chip gmail_drive_chip" style="width:396px;min-height:18px;max-height:18px;background-color:#f5f5f5;padding:5px;color:#222;font-family:arial;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;font-size:13px;border:1px solid #ddd;line-height:1"> <a href="https://docs.google.com/a/crimson.ua.edu/file/d/0B4MDh9xjGUXvanQ3bEVEQWFXLUU/edit?usp=drive_web" style="display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap;text-decoration:none;padding:1px 0px;border:medium none;width:100%" target="_blank"><img src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/icon_10_generic_list.png" style="vertical-align:bottom;border:none"> <span dir="ltr" style="color:#15c;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:bottom">BlackMaxLHArecord.lhe</span></a></div> <br> <div class="gmail_chip gmail_drive_chip" style="width:396px;min-height:18px;max-height:18px;background-color:#f5f5f5;padding:5px;color:#222;font-family:arial;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;font-size:13px;border:1px solid #ddd;line-height:1"> <a href="https://docs.google.com/a/crimson.ua.edu/file/d/0B4MDh9xjGUXvbHpVNFhQWGxVN0E/edit?usp=drive_web" style="display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap;text-decoration:none;padding:1px 0px;border:medium none;width:100%" target="_blank"><img src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/icon_10_generic_list.png" style="vertical-align:bottom;border:none"> <span dir="ltr" style="color:#15c;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:bottom">output.txt</span></a></div> <br> </div> </div> </div> <br> </div> <div class="gmail_extra"><br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Cigdem Issever <span dir="ltr"> <<a href="mailto:c.Issever1@physics.ox.ac.uk" target="_blank">c.Issever1@physics.ox.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div> <div style="direction:ltr;font-family:Tahoma;color:#000080;font-size:10pt">Can you also send me any output BlackMax produce when you run it with the 8TeV setup? <br> <br> I will try to run BlackMax myself with your settings and see if I can reproduce it. <br> <span><br> Cigdem<br> <div><br> <div style="font-size:13px;font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px;font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px;font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px;font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px;font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px;font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px;font-family:Tahoma"><font color="#008000">---------------------------------------------------------------------<br> <a href="https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/issever" target="_blank">Cigdem Issever</a> <font color="#008000"> </font> <br> University of Oxford </font><font color="#008000"><font color="#008000">@ CERN office 104/1-C14</font> <br> Skype-id: cigdem.issever Oxford Tel: <a href="tel:%2B44-1865-273337" value="+441865273337" target="_blank"> +44-1865-273337</a> <br> ---------------------------------------------------------------------</font><br> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </span> <div style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;font-size:16px"> <hr> <div style="direction:ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> Cigdem Issever<br> <b>Sent:</b> 24 February 2015 17:03 <div> <div><br> <b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:shou@crimson.ua.edu" target="_blank">shou@crimson.ua.edu</a>; Email the developers<br> <b>Subject:</b> RE: [Blackmax] Running BlackMax at 8 TeV failed<br> </div> </div> </font><br> </div> <div> <div> <div></div> <div> <div style="direction:ltr;font-family:Tahoma;color:#000080;font-size:10pt">I am not sure what BlackMax does if you set the maximum mass to a higher value than the centre of mass energy. <br> <br> Can you try to run blackmax for the COM = 8 TeV with a maximum mass value of 8TeV? and see if you still have this problem? <br> <br> Cigdem<br> <div><br> <div style="font-size:13px;font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px;font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px;font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px;font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px;font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px;font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px;font-family:Tahoma"><font color="#008000">---------------------------------------------------------------------<br> <a href="https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/issever" target="_blank">Cigdem Issever</a> <font color="#008000"> </font> <br> University of Oxford </font><font color="#008000"><font color="#008000">@ CERN office 104/1-C14</font> <br> Skype-id: cigdem.issever Oxford Tel: <a href="tel:%2B44-1865-273337" value="+441865273337" target="_blank"> +44-1865-273337</a> <br> ---------------------------------------------------------------------</font><br> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;font-size:16px"> <hr> <div style="direction:ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> Cigdem Issever<br> <b>Sent:</b> 24 February 2015 17:01<br> <b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:shou@crimson.ua.edu" target="_blank">shou@crimson.ua.edu</a>; Email the developers<br> <b>Subject:</b> RE: [Blackmax] Running BlackMax at 8 TeV failed<br> </font><br> </div> <div></div> <div> <div style="direction:ltr;font-family:Tahoma;color:#000080;font-size:10pt">Dear Shaoqi, <br> <br> the parameter file you have send is this the the file which causes the problems? I see that the centre of mass energy in this file is set to 9TeV. Can you send me the file which causes the problem? Or are you just changing the centre of mass energy from 9 to 8 TeV in this file and you end up with problems? <br> <br> I just want to make sure that there is not a typo in the parameter file where you set the CoM to 8 TeV. <br> <br> Best<br> Cigdem<br> <div><br> <div style="font-size:13px;font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px;font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px;font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px;font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px;font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px;font-family:Tahoma"> <div style="font-size:13px;font-family:Tahoma"><font color="#008000">---------------------------------------------------------------------<br> <a href="https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/issever" target="_blank">Cigdem Issever</a> <font color="#008000"> </font> <br> University of Oxford </font><font color="#008000"><font color="#008000">@ CERN office 104/1-C14</font> <br> Skype-id: cigdem.issever Oxford Tel: <a href="tel:%2B44-1865-273337" value="+441865273337" target="_blank"> +44-1865-273337</a> <br> ---------------------------------------------------------------------</font><br> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;font-size:16px"> <hr> <div style="direction:ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:blackmax-bounces@projects.hepforge.org" target="_blank"> blackmax-bounces@projects.hepforge.org</a> [<a href="mailto:blackmax-bounces@projects.hepforge.org" target="_blank">blackmax-bounces@projects.hepforge.org</a>] on behalf of Shaoqi Hou [<a href="mailto:shou@crimson.ua.edu" target="_blank">shou@crimson.ua.edu</a>]<br> <b>Sent:</b> 24 February 2015 16:45<br> <b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:blackmax@projects.hepforge.org" target="_blank">blackmax@projects.hepforge.org</a><br> <b>Subject:</b> [Blackmax] Running BlackMax at 8 TeV failed<br> </font><br> </div> <div></div> <div> <div dir="ltr"> <div> <div> <div>To whom it may concern,<br> <br> </div> I am a graduate student at the University of Alabama. Recently, I tried to run BlackMax to reproduce the results of Fig. 1 published in the paper JHEP 07 (2013) 178. But unfortunately, BlackMax got stuck when the center of mass energy was set to 8 TeV. If the center of mass energy is 14 TeV or 9 TeV, BlackMax runs successfully. The attachment is the parameter file. Please look into this problem. Thank you!<br> <br> </div> Best wishes<br> <br> </div> Shaoqi Hou<br> <br> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> <br> </div> </div> </div></div></div> </div> </div> </blockquote></div><br></div>