[Rivet] LHCb - Alex Grecu

[Andy Buckley]

On 23/10/11 11:19, Peter Skands wrote:
> Hi Riveteers,
>
> We've had a LPCC short-term student at CERN for a few months, Alex
> Grecu, working on RIVET analyses for LHCb. I think at least Andy has had
> some mail exchanges with him, maybe others too. Now that his time at
> CERN is drawing to a close, I just wanted to check the status from your
> side, if you've already received everything you need, for inclusion in
> the official Rivet, or if there are issues remaining that I should try
> to push to get concluded before he leaves?

Hi Peter,

Unless I've lost track of something, we've had only one analysis from 
Alex so far, which is an improvement on one at 900 GeV that we 
previously had from Holger. He was obviously a good guy, though, and not 
much needed to be done to that analysis to make it releasable -- it 
unfortunately contains quite a bit of HepMC tree walking, which we 
really try to avoid, but in this sort of analysis it's understandable, 
and hopefully not unsafe.

It would of course be nice to have more LHCb analyses, especially at 7 
TeV, but I don't think we have them yet -- do you happen to know which 
ones Alex is working on?

> PS: I also noticed on your web page, there are some LHCb analyses listed
> as "in progress at IPPP" - is this the same effort?

There was some unfortunate overlap here, in Durham had summer students 
who implemented some of these analyses before we found out about Alex at 
the LPCC tutorial in August. So there has been some duplication, but it 
was a good experience for the students and having done some of the work 
to tidy up their code, I think Alex's implementations are likely to be 
much better formed!

Cheers,
Andy

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Dr Andy Buckley
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