[Rivet] Rivet 1.5.1, mcplots, and everything

[Peter Skands]

Hi Hendrik,

THe energy scaling is exactly why we wanted the OPAL analysis. But including the 
91 GeV point allowed me to cross check with the ALEPH higher-stats analyses, 
which at least contributed to my own spotting of this problem. That is exactly 
why we like to have several (redundant, if you will) analyses at each energy. 
The user can then decide him/herself which plot to trust the most. Of course, in 
some extreme cases, we would throw out a completely useless plot in favour of 
better ones, but there *is* certainly a physics point to validating an analysis 
by cross-comparisons in one phase-space region and then trusting it more in the 
remaining ones.

Peter

On 6/1/11 9:35 AM, Hendrik Hoeth wrote:
> Thus spake Hendrik Hoeth (hendrik.hoeth at cern.ch):
>
>> the problem in the OPAL analysis is fixed. Thanks again for reporting it.
>> We have released Rivet 1.5.1 today, so you can use that now for mcplots.
>
> One thought about the OPAL 2004 analysis. This paper is aimed at the
> energy evolution in LEP-2, but the statistics they use on the Z-pole is
> very limited. The high-statistic LEP-1 runs are not included in that
> analysis, so I think for plots on the Z-pole you should look at papers
> like ALEPH 1996 and DELPHI 1996.
>
> Cheers,
>
>      Hendrik
>