Delphes 3.3.3pre03

preliminary release for PUPPI tuning - corrected typo

Delphes 3.3.3pre02

preliminary release for PUPPI tuning

Delphes 3.3.3pre01

test preliminary release

Delphes 3.3.2

We are happy to inform you about the release of Delphes 3.3.2. It can be downloaded from https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/delphes

This release includes the following new features:

• added pre-validated card for CMS upgrade Phase II studies
• added TrackCountingTauTagging module (a la CheckMate)
• updated tau-tagging efficiency according to ATL-PHYS-PUB-2015-045

Delphes 3.3.1

We are happy to inform you about the release of Delphes 3.3.1. It can be downloaded from https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/delphes

This release includes the following new features:

• corrected light parton mistag rate in b-tagging formula for CMS and ILD cards
• added tracks to output in ILD card to enable root2lhco conversion
• fixed muon collection in ILD card
• added example for pileup generation with Pythia8
• moved to loose isolation working points for ATLAS and CMS cards
• added UseRhoCorrection switch to decide which isolation variable to use for selection (true by default)
• switch to Rapidity selector (SelectorRapRange) for pile-up density computation in FastJet to ensure backward compatibility
• addressed N-subjettiness warnings in 2.2.1 version

Delphes 3.3.0

We are happy to inform you about the release of Delphes 3.3.0. It can be downloaded from https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/delphes

This release includes the following new features:

• improved energy-flow algorithm for high momentum
• updated b-tagging parameterisations to recent ATLAS and CMS publications
• updated FastJet library to 3.1.3
• updated Nsubjettiness library to 2.2.1
• added a detector card for the ILD detector (for ILC) based on http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.6329
• adapted examples, EventDisplay, DelphesFormula and DelphesTF2 to ROOT 6.04
• fixed tau-tagging for events without tau (thanks to Sho Iwamoto)
• fixed UniqueObjectFinder (#728)
• added JetFakeParticle module
• added PhotonConversions module
• added TaggingParticlesSkimmer module
• added phi and energy dependence to AngularSmearing, BTagging, Efficiency, EnergyScale, EnergySmearing, IdentificationMap, ImpactParameterSmearing and MomentumSmearing
• added IsRecoPU flag and PTMin parameter to TrackPileUpSubtractor
• added Invert and Status options to PdgCodeFilter (thanks to Chase Shimmin)
• added new isolation variables to Candidate, Electron, Muon and Photon classes (thanks to Raffaele Gerosa)
• added code from CMS to PileUpMerger and PileUpMergerPythia8
• added timing information to Calorimeter
• added new PileUpJetID version (thanks to Seth Senz)
• added Area 4-vector to jet class
• added PUPPI algorithm and RunPUPPI module
• added RecursiveTools package from fastjet contribs
• replaced N-subjettiness with an array in Jet class (same as in Candidate class)
• added Trimming, Pruning and SoftDrop to FastJetFinder
• added possibility to use DelphesPythia8 with LHE files
• added Pythia8 examples
• added JetFlavorAssociation module with Physics and Algorithmic definitions of the jet flavor
• added new jet flavor definitions to the BTagging module (available only when running DelphesPythia8 with LHE files)

Delphes 3.2.0

We are happy to inform you about the release of Delphes 3.2.0. It can be downloaded from https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/delphes

This release includes the following new features:

• moved code repository to GitHub
• moved configuration files from examples to cards directory
• new event display, with automatic discovery of the object collections, navigation controls, and 3D geometry sketch (for more details, see WorkBook/EventDisplay)
• updated FastJet library to 3.1.0
• added zero suppression to Calorimeter and SimpleCalorimeter modules
• added SmearTowerCenter configuration parameter to Calorimeter and SimpleCalorimeter modules (#363)
• added FastJetGridMedianEstimator module (provides much faster pile-up subtraction based on a fixed grid eta-dependent average pile-up density computation)
• added AngularSmearing module (to smear track eta,phi)
• added PdgCodeFilter (to veto particle with given PID from collections)
• added IdentificationMap (allows to apply (mis)-identification)
• added Example4.C (provides an example on how to compute the jet energy scale)
• added examples (examples/ExternalFastJet) on how to run Delphes as a library with external FastJet installation
• updated card for FCC studies (cards/delphes_card_FCC_basic.tcl)
• added card for LHCb studies (cards/delphes_card_LHCb.tcl)
• made interface with Pythia 8 turned off by default
• adapted Isolation module to new energy-flow photons and neutral hadrons (#362)
• fixed jet mass calculation for anti-kt with "winner-take-all" (#355)
• fixed crashing of root2lhco when ROOT file doesn't contain all required branches (#340)
• added possibility to build Delphes with CMake (#313)