[Rivet] all events are vetoed in Drell Yan analysis

Holger Schulz holger.schulz at physik.hu-berlin.de
Mon Sep 8 09:30:28 BST 2008


Hendrik Hoeth wrote:
> Hi Holger,
>
> Thus spake Holger Schulz (holger.schulz at physik.hu-berlin.de):
>
>   
>> I want to generate some data using the CDF_2008_NOTE_9351 analysis in
>> Rivet and I am having trouble doing so. All the histos have zero
>> entries due to the fact that all events are being vetoed during the
>> execution of Rivet.analyze().
>>     
>
> Check that you're using the right parameter files. I have no problems
> generating events using rivet revision 980 with this command:
>
> rivetgun -g Pythia6:418 -a CDF_2008_NOTE_9351 -P fpythia-cdfdrellyan.params -P fpythia-longlife-stable.params -P tevatron1960.params -n 1000
>   
argh, I forgot the fpythia-longlife-stable.params
Thanks a lot.
>   
>> Provided that everything is ok with the implementation of the analysis
>> and that the rather strict cuts are unavoidable,
>>     
>
> The cuts represent the cuts of the analysis. There is no way to change
> those.
>   

> Cheers,
>
>    Hendrik
>
>   



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