Hi, I studied a bit more in detail the excess in the Mx distribution that causes the slope in the Mx scan. I remind you that: - the excess is in the range 1.5-1.8 GeV - the excess is present only for B0's - the excess affects only one multiplicity category * N chg in the X system = 1,2 * N neu in the X system > 0 I produced the data-MC comparisons for two different tests: - cut on Mx: 1.1<Mx<1.8GeV - nchg=1,2 nneu>0 Here the results: 1.1<Mx<1.8GeV ------------- All http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~daniele/vub/mx1.1-1.8/mx1.1-1.8-comp.html B0 http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~daniele/vub/B0mx1.1-1.8/B0mx1.1-1.8-comp.html Bch http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~daniele/vub/Bchmx1.1-1.8/Bchmx1.1-1.8-comp.html nchg=1,2 nneu>0 --------------- All http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~daniele/vub/cate5/ch1-2ne1-comp.html B0 http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~daniele/vub/B0cate5/B0ch1-2ne1-comp.html Bch http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~daniele/vub/Bchcate5/Bchch1-2ne1-comp.html Look at the plots normalized to the semileptonic events since it is easier to see an excess. My comments are: * for 1.1<Mx<1.8GeV - Bch is ok almost for all variables - B0 nchg shows an excess for nchg = 2 as expected nneu shows an excess for high values eneu has a peak around 1.5!!! * for nchg=1,2 nneu>0 - Bch is ok almost for all variables - B0 nneu shows an excess for high values p* has a peak at high values!! eneu has still an excess at 1.5 Daniele