Here's a dump of the header and first event in the stdhep file. The electron and positron from pdgid=622 do have a displaced vertex. ====== File Header =========== total blocks: 848 version: 2.01 title: tm_17mm.stdhep comment: No comment date: Sat Mar 28 13:43:27 2015 closing date: Sat Mar 28 13:43:27 2015 expected events: 1000 events: 4593 firstTable: -1 dimTable: 100 nNTuples: 0 nBlocks: 8 block names: : Standard HEP COMMON block, see STDHEP Product : Standard HEP COMMON block with multiple interaction, see STDHEP Product : Stdhep begin run record, see STDHEP Product : Stdhep end run record, see STDHEP Product : Standard HEP COMMON block with Les Houches, see STDHEP Product : Standard HEP COMMON block with Les Houches and multiple interaction : Les Houches HEPEUP common block : Les Houches HEPRUP common block ============================= event has 6 particles Track: 0, id: 11, vtx: (0, 0, 0, 0), mom: (0, 0, 6.6, 6.6, 0.0005111) Track: 0, mother1: 0, mother2: 0, daughter1: 3, daughter2: 6, status: 3 Track: 1, id: -623, vtx: (0, 0, 0, 0), mom: (0, 0, 7.56373e-012, 171.24, 171.24) Track: 1, mother1: 0, mother2: 0, daughter1: 3, daughter2: 6, status: 3 Track: 2, id: 622, vtx: (0, 0, 0, 0), mom: (0.03307, 0.0049935, 6.03357, 6.03736, 0.211) Track: 2, mother1: 1, mother2: 2, daughter1: 4, daughter2: 5, status: 2 Track: 3, id: -11, vtx: (0.44637, 0.067401, 81.4396, 0), mom: (0.0372964, -0.063853, 5.30674, 5.30725, 0.0005111) Track: 3, mother1: 3, mother2: 3, daughter1: 0, daughter2: 0, status: 1 Track: 4, id: 11, vtx: (0.44637, 0.067401, 81.4396, 0), mom: (-0.00422642, 0.0688465, 0.726836, 0.730102, 0.0005111) Track: 4, mother1: 3, mother2: 3, daughter1: 0, daughter2: 0, status: 1 Track: 5, id: 11, vtx: (0, 0, 0, 0), mom: (-0.00857002, 0.0259785, 0.561974, 0.56264, 0.0005111) Track: 5, mother1: 1, mother2: 2, daughter1: 0, daughter2: 0, status: 1 Here's the output from slic: [cid:[log in to unmask]] And the start positions are all (0,0,0). I'll continue to investigate. Norman ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the HPS-SOFTWARE list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=HPS-SOFTWARE&A=1