Event weighting strategy -3 and -4

Hi,

I'm not an expert on that variable.
In principle they should not have any differences between event_norm=sum and event_norm=average in both case I would expect strategy 4 (or -4) to be used.

Now if you put event_norm=unit then in that case, I would expect the strategy to be change to 3 (or -3 if you have at least one negative events).

If that matches what you observed? How did you get a strategy -3 used?

Cheers,

Olivier

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> we recently had problems when the event reweighting strategy -3 was set in LHE events that were generated with MadGraph and processed with Pythia.
> To avoid this, I am trying to make sure we always use strategy -4.
> When I set event_norm = sum, does this make sure strategy -4 will always be used, for LO and NLO mode, or are there cases when this wouldn't be the case?
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> Hannes
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Hi Olivier,

thanks for the quick reply.
First, sorry, I meant event_norm=average seems to leads to strategy -4, while event_norm=sum -> strategy=-3.
I just tried it again (in 2.6.5).

To be clear, I am talking about the "-3" in the LHE header:
<init>
2212 2212 6.500000e+03 6.500000e+03 0 0 247000 247000 -3 1
8.360400e+04 7.893500e+01 8.360400e+00 1
<generator name='MadGraph5_aMC@NLO' version='2.6.5'>please cite 1405.0301 </generator>
</init>

I am not entirely sure whether this is a general problem with Pythia or just in our setup, right now I am just trying to be sure we always use -4. The "average" normalization is anyhow better for us and we have been told from the Pythia side to use strategy -4.

The strategies are also documented here
http://home.thep.lu.se/~torbjorn/pythia82html/LesHouchesAccord.html

Cheers,
Hannes