It shows that 91.2% of di-muon, while 83.2% of di-electron events of the first bin lie in the region [0.045 - 0.10], i.e. very close to the kinematic limit for di-muons. I am even more worried, since the kinematic effect of the first part of that bin can be even larger than I expected.
In fact it means that even in the very tiny bin [0.045 - 0.1] The RK* ratio is 0.75  = (1.13-0.10) / (1.67-0.28)   ,
whereas the prediction is  1.02  =  (1.24 - 0.22) /  (1.17-0.16)
Probably I should have asked to split the first bin in an even tinier part, e.g. [0.045 - 0.06] and [0.06 -  1.1].

I'm a bit suspicious about this.....
- marcel


On 28 March 2017 at 12:33, Niels Tuning <h71@nikhef.nl> wrote:


Hi Maarten et al.,

I just peeked in the slides of the review meeting on RK* from this morning;
https://indico.cern.ch/event/626439/contributions/2529544/attachments/1434790/2205854/rkst_2017_03_28.pdf

One of the issues that we also brought up, was the flatness of r_Jpsi.
I'm not sure what to conclude. I found Patrick's thoughts interesting: perhaps everything cancels when one looks at the single-electron distributions. But the procedure relies on the fact that it factorizes when going to the di-electron system...

I don't know how to test the validity of the assumption, though?

Secondly, it's interesting to see that they increased the lower bin edge of the low-q2 bin, from [0.045-1.1] to [0.1-1.1] to see how the result changes (nb: 90% of the cross section of that bin is very close to q2=0, [0.045-0.1] ).
With the new lower edge, the low-q2 bin shows the _same_ trend as the central q2 bin, namely too few muons, and agreeing electrons.

Btw, the final significance is judged to be 3 - 3.2 sigma.

Cheers, Niels







On Tue, 21 Mar 2017, Patrick Koppenburg wrote:


Hi Maarten,

I agree, but they defer most comments t the paper (which is fine). We'll need to be careful. I am slightly worried
that they think that this

      Section 9 is poorly written and hard to understand. You give a name to systematic uncertainties an explain
      how you got them but not not say which effect you try to catch. That's very critical for this analysis to
      be understood. For instance the first sentence of the simulation correction item is totally mysterious.
      Relative efficiency to what? Why would unweighted events take into account simulation statistics?

      >>> We will work on that for the PAPER

refers to phrasing. I understand they assess a systematic by comparing weighted and unweighted events. This method as
undefined coverage. What they should do is vary the weights within uncertainties.

Do we want to nudge back?

Cheers,

Patrick


On 21/03/17 10:20, Maarten van Veghel wrote:

      Dear all,

      We have received a reply to our comments on the Rk* conf note (http://cds.cern.ch/record/2256336).
      In my opinion they gave satisfactory replies. Feel free to take a look and see if they are satisfactory
      for you as well.

      Cheers,
      Maarten

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