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selection cuts

Asked by Sheikh Farah Tabira

Hello,

I have been reading this paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.01323.pdf , and I was wondering how one can impose a selection cut in whizard to separate two bosons.

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Best Juergen Reuter (j.r.reuter) said : 		#1

Hi Tabira,
selection cut as mentioned in the paper is a bit of a jargon. Normally, there are generator-level cuts that are applied already at phase-space generation. These are set in Whizard with the
cuts = <...>
Selection cuts are usually named those that are applied in an experimental analysis, or on an analysis on generated MC event samples. In such a case they will be imposed in the analysis tool of your choice, be it the Whizard internal analysis capabilities, ROOT, Rivet, MadAnalysis etc.
For the Whizard internal analysis, such selections can be applied by the statement
selection = <...>
In the paper you were referring to, despite being named 'selection cuts', these have been generator-level cuts.
Cheers,
    JRR (Juergen)

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Sheikh Farah Tabira (farahtabira) said : 		#2

Thanks Juergen Reuter, that solved my question.