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Hi Antonio,

On Mon, 8 May 2006, Antonio Petrella wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> > Hi Antonio,
> > 
> > that looks quite good wrt the fitted event yield on MC and also wrt to the 
> > pulls in data fit. I would vote to stick to this fit configuration and 
> > move on so that we can check now if a MM2 scan shows reasonable stability 
> > in the BF extraction.
> > 
> > A few questions:
> > 1) Do you have also a non-extended chi^2 fit on data?
> 
> Francesca has asked for this too... I'm producing it
> 
> > 2) I'm a bit surprised when comparing your fit on data with the plot shown 
> >    at April 19: The statistics is not exactly the same (order 20% difference). 
> >    Why is that?
> 
> I think it is due to the different tuning of parameters. Looking at the 
> plot of April 19th we can see that the amount of event fitted by 
> crystall ball in the signal region is greater than on the last plot. So 
> the number of signal events is lower.
> In addition for the fit on data of april 19th I set the endpoint for 
> Argus and Cristall ball fixed, which is not so good when fitting data, 
> is that right?
> So I would say that the latest fit (5 may) has more correct assumptions.
This is not exactly what I meant. The number of events in the mES peak
is different between both plots.

> 
> > 3) In addition, the deviation in the plot of April 19 looks worse. 
> >    However, the chi^2 of that fit is significantly better compared to the 
> >    current number of 6.48. Do we understand why? 
> 
> I would say that this is due to the worsening of the fit on the 
> endpoint. If you look at the pulls for the latest fit you can see that 
> the latest 4 bins have higher values than the ones on the plot of 19 
> April...
Sorry. I didn't look carefully enough. The scale in the pulls is
different. So, indeed the endpoint is not very well described by 
the May 5th fit.

Cheers,
Heiko

> > 
> > 4) Do we need a crosscheck wrt different run periods?
> >    I.e. check if the machinery works when fitting on Run1/2, Run3 and 
> > Run4?
> > 
> 
> I hope it will work even on smaller datasets! Anyway I will check!
> 
> 
> Ciao
>      Antonio
>