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Hi Daniele,
I would consider applying PID killing at the root level, at least until a
new crucial problem in MC is found. Of course we need to fix the tags and
get a correct set, in case we really need to rerun.

What are the objections to this approach?
	ciao
	ric

On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Daniele del Re wrote:

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> Hi all,
>
>  the disagreement I showed in the last comparison data-MC in many plots
> (in p* spectra and mx) is due to a wrong PID killing applied at Beta
> level. Actually it seems that the PID killing is not applied at all for
> the muons.
>
>  I discovered the problem just redoing the PID killing at root code level
> (anaRecoil) and comparing.
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>  In
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>  http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~daniele/test2/test2-comp.html
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>  you find the comparison between the MC with the PID killing at Beta level
> and the MC with  PID killing at anaRecoil level.
>
>  1) muons: difference is dramatic. Probably the PID killing was not
> applied at all.
>
>  2) electrons: no striking differences
>
>  In
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>  http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~daniele/testdatanew/testdata-comp.html
>
>  you can find the new comparison data - MC (using the PID killing at root
> code level). (to be compared with the old
> http://www.slac.stanford.edu/BFROOT/www/Physics/Analysis/AWG/InclusiveSL/islrecoil/datacock0825_56fb-1/datacock0825_56fb-1-comp.html)
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>  All the MC needs to be rerun. We should understand how this problem could
> happen and why the tags we are using are not correct.
>
>  Daniele
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