Hi Sheila,
there are mistakes in table 7, 8, 9 (in the BAD 1383 v.3): the value of
sigma_L for the signal function reported in the tables are in GeV, not
in MeV....
Actually I fixed these tables but only in the CVS version of the BAD.
Thank you for spotting all these mistakes!
Cheers,
Antonio
>
> Hi! Thanks for answering that. I am pretty sure it is supposed
> to have an "n", because otherwise the matching at the boundaries
> doesn't work. Anyway, that's what's in the VirVubFitter.
>
> Now all that remains is my second question, which I
> have pasted below:
>
> (2) The signal function drawn in Figure 4 LOOKS like it has:
>
> * x_c ~ 5.28 GeV = 5280 MeV
> * (alpha*sigma_l) ~ 1 GeV = 1000 MeV
> * sigma_l ~ sigma_R1, sigma_R2
>
> However, according to Table 7:
>
> * x_c = 5.2795 GeV = 5279.5 MeV
> * (alpha*sigma_l) = 0.000008484 GeV = 0.008484 MeV
> * sigma_l << sigma_R1, sigma_R2
>
> I tried to check by plotting the function with the
> given fit parameters in ROOT, but it did not work
> because ROOT could not handle the exponential
> of (x - x_c)/sigma_l, since sigma_l is so tiny.
>
> Am I missing something, or is there a mistake, or what?
>
> Thanks,
>
> sheila
>
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