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Argh, ... should we then more focusing on re-weighting the shape of 
the mX spectrum coming from higher resonances as best as we can rather 
than re-weighting branching fractions in the first place?

Cheers,
Heiko

On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Kerstin Tackmann wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> this is a message from the EvtGen HN. It seems that the D** modeling
> for the lineshape was not quite correct in SP6 either. So not only
> are SP5 and SP6 different in D** modeling, but neither of them
> is really correct... and if you look at the plot linked below, you
> can see that these changes in the lineshape shift the peak of the
> mass distribution (I vaguely remember we wondered about why the peak
> was not at the nominal mean mass when we had a look at the D**
> modeling quite a while ago, Heiko...).
> 
> This might be one ingredient in our "we don't quite understand
> our charm background" puzzle if similar things are true for the
> other D**...
> 
> Cheers,
> Kerstin
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 07:53:53 -0700
> From: David Lange  <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: Re: Question on the differences of the generated D_0*0 shape
>     between SP6 and SP8 MC
> 
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> Hi Liaoyuan
> 
> I guess you mean 'between sp6 and sp8' below. As your plot illustrates
> nicely, some factors were missing in sp5/sp6 lineshapes, in this case,
> most importantly phase space factors. If you add the appropriate phase
> space factors to your BW curve, you should get the sp8 curve.
> 
> david
> 
> Liaoyuan Dong wrote:
> > *** Discussion title: Event Generators
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> > Dear EvtGen experts,
> >
> >      I found there are big differences of the generated D_0*0 shape
> > between SP6 and SP8 MC.
> >
> >      I got the D_0*0 shape using the mcTruth information,
> > The plots for SP6 and SP8 are shown at:
> >
> > http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~dongly/hn/sp6sp8.ps
> >
> >      The upper plot shows the D_0^*0 shape for SP6 signal MC,
> > the lower plot shows the D_0^*0 shape for SP8 signal MC.
> >
> >      The red curves are the fits with the D_0*0 mass and width
> > fixed at the input values (Mass = 2308 MeV and width = 276 MeV).
> > So the generated D_0*0 shape of SP6 MC is consistent with
> > the input values.
> >
> >      Why there are big differences of the generated D_0*0
> > shape between SP5 and SP6 MC ?
> >
> > Thanks for any help !
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Liaoyuan
> >
>