Applying weights to the branches of a TTree

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Hi ROOT experts,

I am new to ROOT and I am looking at generating Drell-Yan MC samples. I have been using AnalysisTop to produce a tree where eahch branch contains my relevant variables for each event, which I want to fill into histograms. I want to apply a particular MC generator weight to each event entry when adding the variables into the tree. The trees are filled in the following code:

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Is there a way to apply the weight “m_weight_mc” to all the branches in the tree?

Note that as these weights are different depending on the event, I cannot perform a simple rescaling of the final histogram.

Thanks,
James

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You can create a new (additional) branch with the weight.

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How exactly would I do this?

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You need to find the place where the “m_tree” is created (i.e., where all its branches are defined).

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The branches of m_tree is defined as follows:

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Would I need to multiply &obj by the weight?

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You need to find the place where the “makeOutputVarible” is actually used.

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I use MakeOutputVariable here:

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I don’t see how I can apply the weights here?

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So, your tree already has a “weight_mc” branch (and the corresponding variable is set in the “CustomTreeManager::fill” method).
Just use it when filling histograms, e.g. → TH1::Fill ; TH2::Fill ; TH3::Fill

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Yes, it does

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I am currently filling the histograms using the “project” function:
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Can I apply the weight using project?

I am not sure how to loop over the branch entries and plot them into the histogram one-by-one, whilst weighting each entry by the corresponding weight.

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tree->Project("h_something", "something", "weight_mc");

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Thank you so much! I can’t believe it was that simple.