Setting the minimum y for a RooPlot

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I’m trying to display a RooPlot of an invariant mass distribution but I can’t get the Plot to display events from y=0. I have tried the following:

#Make my shapes (gaussian, exponential, etc)

#Make a list of them

#Then make my model
    model = ROOT.RooAddPdf("model" , "model", argList, normArgList)
    rHist = ROOT.RooDataHist("rHist", "rHist", ROOT.RooArgList(var), h)
    rHist.SetNameTitle("rHist" , T)

    model.fitTo(rHist)
#Make the frame
    frame = var.frame()

    rHist.plotOn(frame)

    for i in range(len(components)):
        model.plotOn(frame, ROOT.RooFit.Components(components[i]), ROOT.RooFit.LineColor(colours[i]), ROOT.RooFit.LineStyle(2))
    
    model.plotOn(frame)
    frame.SetMinimum(0)

This however does not display the y axis until 0. I have tried placing the #SetMinimum(0) before plotting the models onto the frame as well. Still does not work

Any help is appreciated

Regards,
Diyon

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Hello Diyon335,

I am inviting @StephanH to this post, as he may know the answer to this question.

Cheers,
J.

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Hi @Diyon335, according to RooPlot doxygen you can GetYaxis(). SetRangeUser(0,MaxValue).hopefully this will work

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@RENATO_QUAGLIANI , thanks for your response. I just tried it but it still does not work

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Hello @Diyon335,

I am also inviting @moneta to this post. He might help to shed some light on this.

Cheers,
J.

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Use RooPlot::SetAxisRange, see https://root.cern.ch/doc/master/classRooPlot.html#ae91b317630b54eba518945adb64b6558

frame.SetAxisRange(ymin, max, "Y");

Lorenzo

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axis

I have tried all the suggestions but as you can see, it does not go all the way to y = 0. is there some sort of override I must do in order to force it? because it seems to me that no matter what I do, ROOT just does not listen

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Hi,
Strange that the above line does not work. Can you please save the RooPlot object in a ROOT file and post it, so I can have a look ?
Thank you

Lorenzo

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@moneta , unfortunately my permission to do this is restricted. is there any other way you could help me out?

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Hi,
If you don’t want to share the plot with everybody, (although you have already added the figure), you can always send it to me by private email

Lorenzo

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@moneta, sorry I should have explained better. I believe the way my Nikhef account has been set does not allow me to scp files via the remote server and my local machine. Therefore I am not able to get the file and upload it. These plots were screenshots I took

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