Hi Concezio, Yes, you are right about the SP8 work. For distinguishing SP5 and SP6 Kerstin did already some work. The run numbers are different in SP5 and SP6. if (run<3158000) selects SP5 events. I checked it and it works for signal MC and generic. Cheers, Wolfgang Concezio Bozzi wrote: > Hi all, > if we stay with SP5/6 I think that reweighting the D** wrt D+D* > separately for SP5 and SP6 would be the best we can do. But this means > that we need to know whether we are analysing SP5 or SP6 events when we > build the datasets in VVF, which I am not sure how to do. > Using SP8 means a lot of extra work/checks/tunings. > However it is not clear to me why when we compute the D** reweighting we > get 1 for SP5 and 0.83 for SP6, whereas we get 0.55 for (sp5+sp6). Well, > the fit might be just readjusting itself... > Concezio. > > Il giorno mer, 19-07-2006 alle 13:03 +0000, Wolfgang Menges ha scritto: >> Hi Heiko, >> >> Heiko Lacker wrote: >>> Hi Wolfgang, >>> >>>> There are two ways out. Either we switch to release 18 MC/SP8 which will >>>> have better D** description, better other things, but we have to adjust >>>> a lot of (more or less hard) coded numbers. But it will also solve the >>>> SP5/SP6 difference for the signal MC. We have to calculate new weights >>>> and magic factors. The other way is to apply some reweigting for SP5 to >>>> get the same as SP6. >>> This is in principle not possible as there are D** mass regions in >>> SP6 which have not been populated in SP5 :-( >>> >> That is a pity. So, my suggestion is to stick with SP5 AND SP6 or switch >> to SP8. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Wolfgang >> > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wolfgang Menges Queen Mary, University of London SLAC, MS 35 Mile End Road 2575 Sand Hill Road London, E1 4NS, UK Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA +44 20 7882 3753 ++1 650 926 8503 [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------------------------