[Rivet] normalisation to cross-sections

Hendrik Hoeth hendrik.hoeth at cern.ch
Fri Oct 23 15:54:21 BST 2009


Just to clarify things a bit more:

Thus spake Frank Siegert (frank.siegert at durham.ac.uk):

> If I run 10 x 1 million events to get high statistics in short time,
> then I want to be able to combine the resulting 10 histograms into
> one. [...] this doesn't work, because there might be runaway bins
> which create a bias towards low values for all other bins.

This problem only appears in distributions where not all events are
filled into the histogram (i.e. after cuts) in combination with weighted
events.

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