[Rivet] Rivet validation plots

[Andy Buckley]

On 05/05/16 19:28, Jamie Tattersall wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> This is potentially a very stupid question..... but where do I find
> validation material (i.e plots) for the Rivet analyses? (I've been
> clicking for a while now but not got anywhere).

Hi Jamie,

Good question! This is probably something that we should make a 
systematic point of putting online. For the last year or so, we have 
managed to get the experiments to supply validation plots along with the 
code, and those plot sets are in the tarballs at
https://www.hepforge.org/archive/rivet/contrib/

For a lot of the SM ones, there are also fairly up-to-date comparisons 
against modern generators at http://mcplots.cern.ch/

But we don't yet have a repository of e.g. generator comparisons to all 
plots on the Rivet website. It is something that we could add, though... 
just putting our new nightly validation outputs on the website for example.

I guess that you are more interested in the BSM analyses, though. What 
sort of validation would you like to see for those? As you know, they 
haven't been a major emphasis so far, but that is changing so any input 
is welcome!

Andy

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