[Rivet] Many empty bins in refdata for JADE_OPAL_2000...

Frank Siegert frank.siegert at durham.ac.uk
Sat Jun 19 20:42:56 BST 2010


Hi Holger,

Holger Schulz, Saturday 19 June 2010:
> I just found that in the data file for the JADE_OPAL_2000... analysis
> there are many many bins with zero YValue and zero YError.
> Is there a good reason for that?

I suppose that's because it's on Hepdata that way (but please confirm). 
You mean just some bins, not whole distributions, right?

> If not I would volunteer to remove those bins.

Thanks for volunteering, but if there are no serious drawbacks of the 
zeros, I would suggest not to, because 

1) We shouldn't deviate from Hepdata without need.
2) (Existing) AIDA files from the existing Rivet versions can't be 
plotted together with new ones then because the binning has changed.
3) Some of the bins without reference data might still be filled by 
(different) Monte-Carlo runs and thus might be useful for comparison.

Cheers,
Frank


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