Different PDFs sets for different beams

Hi,

No this is not supported.

My typical suggestion is to use reweighting for that (in post-processing)

Cheers,

Olivier

Dear Oliver,
many thanks for finding time to answer my question.

If it is possible could you please explain what do you assume by reweighting?
(my initial idea was to use a set of Nuclear PDFs together with a set of usual PDFs )
Does rewaighting mean that I have to multiply my cross section by certain nuclear modification factor?

Cheers,
Oleh

Hi,

By reweighting, I mean that you have to read the lhe file and change the weigh of each event by the following ratio:

pdf_new(x1, q1)/pdf_old(x1,q1)

in the lhe file, you have the information about x1 and q1 written inside the <mgrwgt> block.

We do not have a code for doing that automatically, but you can look at the systematics.py scripts which does similar stuff
(but on both beam actually) so the easiest is probably to hack that script to only reweight over a single pdf.

Cheers,

Olivier

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> oleh is still having a problem:
> Dear Oliver,
> many thanks for finding time to answer my question.
>
> If it is possible could you please explain what do you assume by reweighting?
> (my initial idea was to use a set of Nuclear PDFs together with a set of usual PDFs )
> Does rewaighting mean that I have to multiply my cross section by certain nuclear modification factor?
>
> Cheers,
> Oleh
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Dear Oliver,

thank you very much.

This solved my problem.

Cheers,
Oleh