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[Rivet] Normalisation of histograms in MC_Z* analysesFrank Siegert frank.siegert at cern.chThu Apr 16 13:45:43 BST 2015
Hi all, > when running some of the MC_Z* analyses, I observed differences in the way > histograms are normalised. E.g. in the analysis MC_ZJETS all histograms > inherited from the MC_JetAnalysis are normalised using Scale(hist, > crossSection()/sumOfWeights()) which in my opinion seems to be the correct > approach. On the contrary, the two histograms Z_jet1_dR and Z_jet1_deta are > normalised using normalize(hist, crossSection()/picobarn) which can be quite > misleading in my opinion. I agree, these histograms should definitely be using scale(hist, xs/sumOfWeights()) and not normalize. This also used to be the case, but was changed a while ago: https://rivet.hepforge.org/trac/changeset/8c96bd39e1f006b308af846dfd2dac361f11aca5#file26 Andy, do you remember why? > Also, the description of MC_ZJETS (data/anainfo/ > MC_ZJETS.info) is a bit outdated as e.g. the Z mass distribution is not > available. Right, that has been moved to the MC_ZINC when the analyses were split, and I must have forgot to update the descriptions, sorry! Cheers, Frank
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