[Rivet] Rivet 2.5.0 beta approaching, and more Rivet analyses?

[Alex Grecu]

Hi Andy,

Thanks for the great news and the newly implemented features which will 
receive much interest at LHCb.
I'm apologize for the delayed answer, I had to give the collaboration 
some time to react. Unfortunately no reaction and the few analysis 
modules I'm working on are still in preliminary phase. Therefore, I 
don't see any problem going straight to 2.5.0. The sooner it's out the 
sooner we would be able to put it in production.
Our software is overall compatible to C++11 though there are some parts 
which still use boost with workarounds. I cannot say yet anything until 
LHCb gets to "play" with the new version and try to compile it inside 
the framework environment. We're looking forward to the test release of 
2.5.0.

Cheers,
Alex

On 04/07/2016 06:41 PM, Andy Buckley wrote:
> Hi Xavier, Chris, and Alex,
>
> I just wanted to let you know the near-future plans for Rivet. The 
> next major version will be 2.5.0, in which the major developments are 
> (at last!) a move to compulsory C++11 and dropping of the Boost 
> library dependency, and adding some machinery to include detector 
> effects.
>
> The first of these will be welcome, I hope: we took the arrival of 
> experiment-contributed analyses in the C++11 dialect as a clear sign 
> that it was finally time to make that move. And it really cleans up 
> the code when used judiciously. It's nice to finally get rid of Boost, 
> too!
>
> We hope that the second development will make your BSM groups happy. 
> As you know, we have long rejected calls for detector-sim integration, 
> on the grounds that SM measurement is *definitely* best provided in 
> unfolded form. But for BSM purposes this is unrealistic, so hopefully 
> the arrival of particle and jet efficiency/smearing tools (both 
> standard functions and pluggability of user-defined ones) will pave 
> the way for Rivet analysis preservation (and re-casting) from those 
> groups as well as the established Standard Model uses.
>
> I was particularly happy to find that Rivet's projection model suits 
> fast-simulation very well: analyses can apply the exactly appropriate 
> smearing functions rather than relying on one-size-fits-all objects 
> from monolithic fast-sims, and if the same definition is used more 
> than once, projection caching automatically kicks it to avoid wasting 
> CPU. We'll have plenty more to say about this...
>
> We'll provide a 2.5.0 beta for you to test in the near future, but in 
> the meantime I wanted to let you know what is coming... so you can 
> pass the message on to those who might be interested. And to ask if 
> you have any more imminent analyses in the pipeline? We can issue a 
> 2.4.2 release before the final 2.5.0 if there is demand, but at 
> present there's only one analysis in our integration queue so we'd be 
> tempted to go straight to 2.5 if no more are on their way. And there's 
> another plus point for that strategy: going straight to 2.5 allows you 
> to use C++11 features! Let us know, please.
>
> Best wishes,
> Andy
>
> -- 
> Dr Andy Buckley, Lecturer / Royal Society University Research Fellow
> Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow


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