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[Rivet] Transverse mass bug(?)Gavin Hesketh gavin.hesketh at cern.chThu Apr 12 18:13:29 BST 2012
Hello, I think there is a problem in the definition of transverse mass in Rivet (though I may have got up a bit too early this morning to be doing 4-vector manipulation at this point in the day!) Transverse mass is defined as: mT^2 = (ET1 + ET2)^2 - (pT1 + pT2)^2 1 & 2 are the lepton and neutrino. the second term is a vector sum. This is equivalent to mT^2 = (ET1 + ET2)^2 - pTW^2 but is not equivalent (I think) equivalent to the definition in Vector4.hh: mT = M * sin(theta); I don't think you can derive the transverse mass purely from the 4-vector of the W - you need the vectors (or at least the transverse energies) of the decay products. This may mean a bit of rewriting for the InvMassFinalState, but nothing too serious. But right now all the analyses involving W's will be wrong. cheers, Gavin
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