[Rivet-announce] Rivet 2.5.1 release + YODA 1.6.3

[Andy Buckley]

Dear Rivet users,

We are very pleased to release Rivet 2.5.1 and the YODA histogramming 
package v1.6.3.

This patch release adds a new projection for smearing missing transverse 
energy in addition to the jet and identified-particle smearing machinery 
(for non-unfolded BSM analyses) first introduced in Rivet 2.5.0.

In addition it adds more internal sophistication to the smearing 
machinery, useful new particle classifier machinery for convenient 
passing of cuts, filtering functions, and smearing functions. This 
allows even more expressive one-liners and neater, more compact analysis 
code, e.g. in studying particle decays.

We have also fixed several bugs and enhanced the plotting machinery, the 
utility functions, the search path handling, etc., and have validated 
several older but incomplete analyses.

This version is recommended for immediate use: please update asap! The 
next release, 2.5.2, will focus on adding LHC BSM analysis codes 
demonstrating the new smearing features.

You can get Rivet and YODA source tarballs, as usual, from the websites
http://rivet.hepforge.org/
http://yoda.hepforge.org/
and using the Rivet bootstrap scripts: see the online getting-started 
documentation for details.

Best wishes,
The Rivet & YODA teams

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