Hi Roberto,
>> I see in VubXlnu.cc that there is some "pi0 killing" going on when the
>> kinematic variables for the soft pi- partial D* reco are computed (killing
>> as in they are not computed for every pi0). This killing probability is a
>> function of the soft pi0 momentum. Why is this done and where do the
>> parameter (and the parametrization) of this function come from?
>
> concerning this, we have introduced the killing since we use a pi0 list to do
> the D* partial reconstruction. We took the recipe from the Neutral
> Reconstruction AWG page (for R18, of course, given that nothing was ever
> updated to newer releases):
> http://www.slac.stanford.edu/BFROOT/www/Physics/Analysis/AWG/Neutrals/validation/recipie18.html
Great, thanks so much for pointing me to this!
All the best,
Kerstin
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