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fastjet::CDFMidPointPlugin Class Reference

Implementation of the MidPoint algorithm from CDF (plugin for fastjet-v2.1 upwards) More...

#include <fastjet/CDFMidPointPlugin.hh>

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Public Types

enum  SplitMergeScale { SM_pt, SM_Et, SM_mt, SM_pttilde }
 the choice of scale to be used in the split-merge step

Public Member Functions

 CDFMidPointPlugin (double seed_threshold_in, double cone_radius_in, double cone_area_fraction_in, int max_pair_size_in, int max_iterations_in, double overlap_threshold_in, SplitMergeScale sm_scale_in=SM_pt)
 A CDFMidPointPlugin constructor that looks like the one provided by CDF.
 CDFMidPointPlugin (double cone_radius_in, double overlap_threshold_in, double seed_threshold_in=1.0, double cone_area_fraction_in=1.0)
 a compact constructor
double seed_threshold () const
double cone_radius () const
double cone_area_fraction () const
int max_pair_size () const
int max_iterations () const
double overlap_threshold () const
virtual std::string description () const
 return a textual description of the jet-definition implemented in this plugin
virtual void run_clustering (ClusterSequence &) const
 given a ClusterSequence that has been filled up with initial particles, the following function should fill up the rest of the ClusterSequence, using the following member functions of ClusterSequence:
virtual double R () const
 the plugin mechanism's standard way of accessing the jet radius

Detailed Description

Implementation of the MidPoint algorithm from CDF (plugin for fastjet-v2.1 upwards)

A plugin for fastjet-v2.1 that provides an interface to the CDF midpoint algorithm

CDFMidPointPlugin is a plugin for fastjet (v2.1 upwards) that provides an interface to the CDF version of Run-II iterative cone algorithm with midpoint seeds (also known as the Iterative Legacy Cone Algorithm, ILCA).

The CDF code has been taken from Joey Huston's webpage http://www.pa.msu.edu/~huston/Les_Houches_2005/Les_Houches_SM.html

Note that the CDF midpoint code contains options that go beyond those described in the Tevatron run-II document (hep-ex/0005012), notably search-cones, as described in hep-ph/0111434, and midpoints bewteen multiplets of stable cones.

Additionally, the version of the CDF midpoint code distributed here has been modified by the FastJet authors, so as to allow one to choose the scale used in the split-merge step.

Definition at line 66 of file CDFMidPointPlugin.hh.


Constructor & Destructor Documentation

fastjet::CDFMidPointPlugin::CDFMidPointPlugin ( double  seed_threshold_in,
double  cone_radius_in,
double  cone_area_fraction_in,
int  max_pair_size_in,
int  max_iterations_in,
double  overlap_threshold_in,
SplitMergeScale  sm_scale_in = SM_pt 
) [inline]

A CDFMidPointPlugin constructor that looks like the one provided by CDF.

Its arguments should have the following meaning:

  • seed_threshold: minimum pt for a particle to be considered a seed of the iteration.
  • cone_radius: standard meaning
  • cone_area_fraction: stable-cones are searched for with a radius Rsearch = R * sqrt(cone_area_fraction), and then expanded to size R afterwards; note (hep-ph/0610012) that this introduces IR unsafety at NLO for X+2-jet observables (where X any hard object).
  • max_pair_size: "midpoints" can be added between pairs of stable cones, triplets of stable cones, etc.; max_pair_size indicates the maximum number of stable cones that are assembled when adding midpoints.
  • max_iterations: the maximum number of iterations to carry out when looking for a stable cone.
  • overlap_threshold: if (overlapping_Et)/(Et_of_softer_protojet) < overlap_threshold, overlapping jets are split, otherwise they are merged.
  • sm_scale: a choice for the scale to be used in the split-merge step (both for ordering the momenta and quantifying the overlap); the three options are

. SM_pt: pt (default -- source of small IR safety issue in purely hadronic events)

. SM_Et: Et (not boost invariant, reduces to mt at zero rapidity and to pt and infinite rapidity)

. SM_mt: transverse mass = sqrt(m^2+pt^2)

Definition at line 111 of file CDFMidPointPlugin.hh.

fastjet::CDFMidPointPlugin::CDFMidPointPlugin ( double  cone_radius_in,
double  overlap_threshold_in,
double  seed_threshold_in = 1.0,
double  cone_area_fraction_in = 1.0 
) [inline]

a compact constructor

NB: as of version 2.4, the default value for the overlap_threshold threshold has been removed, to avoid misleading people into using the value of 0.5 without thinking, which is known to have adverse effects in high-noise environments. A recommended value is 0.75.

Definition at line 134 of file CDFMidPointPlugin.hh.


Member Function Documentation

void fastjet::CDFMidPointPlugin::run_clustering ( ClusterSequence ) const [virtual]

given a ClusterSequence that has been filled up with initial particles, the following function should fill up the rest of the ClusterSequence, using the following member functions of ClusterSequence:

  • plugin_do_ij_recombination(...)
  • plugin_do_iB_recombination(...)

Implements fastjet::JetDefinition::Plugin.

Definition at line 87 of file CDFMidPointPlugin.cc.


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