Difference between revisions of "Scale factor"

[[Efficiency|Efficiencies]] may be different in [[Event simulation|simulated]] and [[Recorded events|data]]. The efficiencies in simulation may be corrected to match those in data by multiplying the [[weight]] of each simulated event by a '''scale factor'''. The goal is to make simulated [[Observable|distributions]] agree better with the recorded distributions.

[[Efficiency|Efficiencies]] may be different in [[Event simulation|simulated]] and [[Recorded events|data]]. The efficiencies in simulation may be corrected to match those in data by multiplying the [[weight]] of each simulated event by a '''scale factor'''. The goal is to make simulated [[Observable|distributions]] agree better with the recorded distributions.