STAR task force for tuning PYTHIA

[Matthew Kelsey <mkelsey AT wayne.edu>]

Hello all,

Happy New Year! Just a reminder we will forgo this weeks meeting due to the 
STAR analysis meeting.

In the mean time I wanted to check in with all proponents of the various 
Rivet analyses on how activities are progressing? In particular, I was 
wondering if you think we will be able to have some working analyses within a 
time scale of around 2 weeks (feel free to message privately to not spam the 
list)? If we have a few ready, we can begin to test the machinery of the 
Professor tuning method. Once various analyses are complete, we should start 
populating them on the git repository (to be circulated). 

In regards to the question brought up during our last meeting on whether to 
make these analyses public/private, etc. I think we should work to make them 
public as this would be beneficial to the community as they can be used to 
(re-)tune PYTHIA or other generators. This would require some approval, in 
which Rongrong suggested that we implement an internal approval process for 
ourselves. To me this seems to be an OK route. We can surly discuss this in 
detail in the coming meetings but if you have any initial thoughts please let 
me know.

Talk to you soon. Cheers,
Matt 

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Matthew Kelsey 
Postdoctoral Fellow
Wayne State University
<he/him/his>