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Changes between Version 6 and Version 7 of perWeight


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Timestamp:
May 29, 2018, 11:57:27 AM (7 years ago)
Author:
mosel
Comment:

negative weights explained

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    3636As an example: if you want to calculate the inclusive pion production cross section, you have to loop over all particles and sum the perWeights of all pions. Simply taking the number of all pions would give false results.
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     38The weights can also be negative. This happens, e.g., in the case of pion production on nucleons. In this case the cross section is determined by the square of a coherent sum of resonance and background amplitudes and as such is positive. In the code the resonance contribution is separated out as the square of the resonance amplitude and as such is positive as well. The remainder, i.e. the sum of the square of the background amplitude and the interference term of resonance and background amplitudes, can be negative, however. This latter contribution is just the event type labeled 33 in the code that describes the 1pi bg plus interference.
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