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[Rivet] Fwd: e+ e- from photon decayVladyslav Danilov vladyslav.danilov at desy.deTue Feb 16 21:29:44 GMT 2016
Hello Andy, Sorry for missing that file last time. During event-by-event comparison i found a virtual photon, from hard muon bremsstrahlung, that produced e-e+ pair. In attached file you can find a piece of event: - from vertex 128 we can see that W+ decayed into muon-(bar code 177) and muon antineutrino(barcode 178). - vertex 129 shows that muon scatters into muon and virtual gamma(barcode 180). - from vertex 131 we see that v.gamma produces virtual e- and Final State e+ - in vertex 134 we have FS e- According to Your previous(see below) answer, it only makes sense in resolution of shower photon virtuality > 2m_e, so is it a bug in a code or i did a wrong interpretation? Please write me if You have any questions. Best regards, Vlad ----- Вихідне повідомлення ----- Від: "andy buckley" <andy.buckley at cern.ch> Кому: "Chris Pollard" <cpollard at cern.ch>, "Vladyslav Danilov" <vladyslav.danilov at desy.de> Копія: "rivet" <rivet at projects.hepforge.org> Надіслано: Середа, 3 Лютий 2016 р 16:02:24 Тема: Re: [Rivet] e+ e- from photon decay I thought a bit more on what Chris has rightly said, and I think (but please prove me wrong) that there's a deeper issue in that isolated photon conversion is fundamentally Lorentz-symmetry-violating. So it only makes sense in the resolution of shower photon virtuality > 2m_e and even then is dodgy because that off-shellness is there more by accident than design. The real physical source of conversions in experiments is on-shell photon interactions with detector material, which doesn't apply to Rivet. Or you may have been referring to matrix element amplitudes with a photon propagator and final-state electrons: that's not a well-defined event "history", so to be physical you need to make the "photon" identification based on some other properties of those final-state electrons. Please let us know if we can help further... Andy On 03/02/16 14:37, Chris Pollard wrote: > Hi Vlad, > > We don't have a method that does this, no, largely because this is not a > generator-independent thing to ask. It's in principal possible for > off-shell photons to be created in the event shower and to pair produce > electrons, but I don't think there's any guarantee that the photon is > actually written to the event record. > > Does that make sense? > > Chris > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Vladyslav Danilov > <vladyslav.danilov at desy.de <mailto:vladyslav.danilov at desy.de>> wrote: > > Hello! > > My name is Vlad, i work in ATLAS group at DESY. > Could You please help me with one question - i wonder to know > whether Rivet has some class or method that determines e+ e- to be > from photon decay? > I spent some time for search it among Rivet classes, but i didn't find. > > Sorry for disturbing. > > Best regards, > Vlad > _______________________________________________ > Rivet mailing list > Rivet at projects.hepforge.org <mailto:Rivet at projects.hepforge.org> > https://www.hepforge.org/lists/listinfo/rivet > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Rivet mailing list > Rivet at projects.hepforge.org > https://www.hepforge.org/lists/listinfo/rivet > -- Dr Andy Buckley, Lecturer / Royal Society University Research Fellow Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: gamma_into_eebar Type: application/octet-stream Size: 1882 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://www.hepforge.org/lists-archive/rivet/attachments/20160216/5b84e591/attachment.obj>
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