> Hi Daniele, > this is not what shown in our Vub conf papers where the purity of the mes > plots is by eye almost a factor 2 worse than BAD976. > > Do you agree? well, if I compare http://www.slac.stanford.edu/babar-internal/BAD/doc/download.html?file=01255.016.ps pag 12 with http://www.slac.stanford.edu/babar-internal/BAD/doc/download.html?file=00976.014.ps pag 14 I see a large difference in the background shape but if you look at the signal region S/B is not so different (20/30% worse?) But I agree that it is worse and this is due to the different mode composition in the final sample. By using the tables I sent in my posting it should be possible to track which is the mode that is causing the difference. Daniele > ciao > ric > > ______________________________________________________ > Riccardo Faccini > BaBar Physics Analysis Coordinator > > SLAC | Universita' "La Sapienza" & I.N.F.N. Roma > tel +1/650/9265287 | tel +39/06/49914798 > cell+1/650/3925585 | > Fax +1/650/9263882 | Fax.: +39/06/4957697 > PO BOX 20450 - MS 35 | 2,Ple Aldo Moro, I-00185 Roma > Stanford, CA 94309 | Dipartimento di Fisica > web page : http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~rfaccini > > > On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Daniele del Re wrote: > > > > > Hir Henning, > > > > > I have a question concerning the change of Breco purity when moving from > > > SP4/rel.10 (most of the run1-2 analyses) to SP6/rel.14 (run1-4). > > > > > > Do you see a reduction in purity with the newer reconstruction release in > > > both data and MC? > > > And can you possibly quantify it? > > > > the purity with no DE cut should be improved since the skim rate went from > > 4% to 1.5% on data. Once you apply the mode dependent deltaE cut you > > should get a similar purity compared to rel 10 (probably slightly worse). > > Which machinery are you using to produce ntuples and to select the best B? > > > > > Similarily for the yield, I guess this is higher per fb-1 for the new > > > release but does someone have some numbers? > > > > there should be an increase of around 15-20%. > > > > > I expect you only have these numbers for events with an identified lepton > > > and not for all Breco candidates, but this would already help. > > > > for a per mode comparison (no cut) you can compare the tables in > > > > http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~daniele/breco/temp/sxModes-{2,3,4,5}.html > > for run1-4 rel14 > > with > > http://www.slac.stanford.edu/BFROOT/www/Physics/Analysis/AWG/InclusiveSL/islrecoil/data0909_80fb-1/sxModes-{2,3,4,5}.html > > for 80 fb-1 rel10 > > > > > For the Breco b->sg analysis we see a higher (BB) background i.e. reduced > > > purity and would like to better understand this. > > > > the lower purity can be due to just few new modes that were not present in > > rel 10 (because of the new tables). If they bother a lot you can identify > > them and cut them out. > > > > Daniele > > >