Top MC validation (How To)

What is Rivet?

Rivet is a software toolkit for data analysis of MC event generator samples, providing tools (jet finders, event shapes, etc.) for easy writing of analyses which are not generator-specific, and a large (250+) collection of MC versions of published experimental analyses. http://rivet.hepforge.org.

Rivet 2

Rivet2 is not yet interfaced to Athena!

Running Rivet

Log in to lxplus and source the setup script:

source /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/experimental/rivet/setup.sh

The ATLAS Rivet analyses can be found here:

/afs/cern.ch/atlas/groups/Generators/Rivet/Analyses/

-- CarlosEscobar - 28 Nov 2013