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Hi Sheila,

> > Out of the 20k events, 11598 make it to the point that we even initialize
> > a RecoilMCUtil for them. The 8402 others apparently have an empty Breco
> > list (according to the eventCat histogram). Why does this actually happen?
> > We are running over the SemiExclusive skim after all. Why does the skim
> > write events with an empty Breco candidate list?
>
> I have observed the same thing when I run.  I am just testing my code
> so my sample is small, but when I run 30 events about 10 of them have
> an empty Breco list.  Steve said that he gets empty Breco lists in
> some events, too.

Yes, David (Lopes Pegna) observes the same thing. I guess I was just
wondering if there is a reason why the skimming code does it this way.

Kerstin