[Rivet] VH Run1 analysis

Andy Buckley andy.buckley at cern.ch
Mon Jun 8 13:12:03 BST 2015


On 08/06/15 13:01, David Grellscheid wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> 
> On 08/06/2015 13:48, Andy Buckley wrote:
>> Even though there's no reference data? If I understand correctly, this
>> will be plotting MC distributions whose data counterparts were not made
>> public (or at least not tabulated) in the ATLAS publication.
> 
> Interesting question. If there's a publication, our analysis needs an
> I-number. But will the machinery then always expect refdata to exist?

No, it doesn't. Not the core Rivet machinery at least -- it only
expected reference data if the book* methods are called in the
"autobooking" form, rather than giving explicit bin edges. (Equally, an
MC_* analysis could have ref data, if it wanted to use autobooking for
some reason.)

Andy

-- 
Dr Andy Buckley, Lecturer / Royal Society University Research Fellow
Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow


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