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Hi all, I have a question concerning the correction we apply to reweight the MC to have the same ratio of charged to neutral B as data. More precisely, we apply this correction to all types of MC (signal, b->clnu, other) and we really only use the same sign events for the neutral B decays. Here is what I wonder about: When we do the mixing correction (see BAD 540 section 5.2.1), we assume that among the neutral B, all the leptons we call signal leptons arise from direct (B->Xclnu) and from cascade decays, mixed and unmixed in both cases. In signal MC, we will not have any cascade leptons from D decays, so the ratio between same sign and opposite sign events will be different in signal MC and in b->clnu MC and in data. This means that also the ratio between charged B and same sign neutral B events will be different in data (which, with the few cuts applied here, will be mostly b->clnu and hence has cascade leptons from D) and signal MC. Yet we reweight the signal MC to have the same ratio. So it seems we take the cascade leptons into account for the mixing correction, but not for the correction between charged and (same sign) neutral B decays. Was there an explicit decision to do it this way? If so, why? Does whoever implemented it this way remember the reasoning behind this? I stumbled over this when I went through the VVF code to see how this correction should be applied to the spectral unfolding specific data sets. However, this seems relevant for the BRBR extraction as well. Thanks, Kerstin