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"Johnson, Tony S." wrote:

> The fermilab stdhep implementation uses a common block to read events into.
> This common block is by default set to contain a maximum of 4000 particles.
> The standard StdHEP DIM used by JAS uses this implementation and is thus
> limited to reading events with 4000 particles.
>
> Is it possible that the implementation you are using has been changed to
> generate more than 4000 particles per event? It sounds strange since I dont
> think we normally get anywhere close to 4000 particles in any of the event
> samples we have generated so far.
>
> If this is really correct we have a second experimental Stdhep DIM, which
> does not use the Fermilab code and is thus not restriced to 4000 particles.
> I have attached the jar file to this message. Just drop this jar file into
> your extensions directory (and possibly delete HepEvt.jar which is the old
> DIM).
>
> Tony
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Ronan [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 3:12 PM
> To: tonyj
> Cc: lcd-l
> Subject: Error in reading Pandora_PythiaV2.1 STDHEP files directly into
> JAS
>
> Tony,
>
>   I've managed to build and Pandora_Pythia on a Solaris box at SLAC w/
> very minor modifications to Masako's instructions. I'm now trying to
> read in and analyze the generated events in JAS through the output
> STDHEP file, but I get the following exception
>
>   java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 4000
>         at jasext.hepevt.HepEvent$HepEnumeration.nextParticle
>         at hep.lcd.util.driver.LCDHepEvent$MCHepParticle.getDaughters
>         ...
>
> It happens on 97/100 events that I generated w/ the following
>
>   gen_eetottbar output.dat 100 > output.list
>
> from the examples. The Pandora_Pythia output summary looks fine (see
> below), and STDHEP doesn't complain, i.e.
>
>           ********************************************************
>           *       STDHEP version 4.07  -  July 14, 1999          *
>           ********************************************************
>
>  STDXWOPEN WARNING: I/O is initialized for stdhep only
>
>           STDXEND:     513431 words i/o with    10012 efficiency
>
> Mike
>
>
>  The value of the integral is 739.999 pm 11.8396
>              and the maximum weight found is 21772.2
>  ...
>
> ======================================
>     Welcome to pandora_pythia.
> ======================================
>
> --------------------------------------
>     Cross section = 738.543190
>     ...
>
>                             Event listing (summary)
>
>     I particle/jet KS     KF  orig    p_x      p_y      p_z
> E        m
>
>     1 !e-!         21      11    0    0.000    0.000  250.000
> 250.000    0.001
>     2 !e+!         21     -11    0    0.000    0.000 -250.000
> 250.000    0.001
>     3 !gamma!      21      22    0    0.000    0.000    0.252
> 0.252    0.000
>     4 !gamma!      21      22    0    0.000    0.000   -0.525
> 0.525    0.000
>     5 !phasespa!   21      83    0    0.021   -0.040    0.240  499.223
> 499.223
>     6 !t!          21       6    5  101.195  130.398  -21.348  242.648
> 176.574
>     7 !tbar!       21      -6    5 -101.195 -130.398   21.621  256.575
> 195.241
>
>   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                  Name: StdHep.jar
>    StdHep.jar    Type: Java Archive (application/java-archive)
>              Encoding: BASE64