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The NUISANCE minimizer application can be used to tune MC models by directly comparing with published scattering data and using ROOT's minimizer libraries to find a best fit parameter set.

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  1. Page BUILD Built
  2. GENIE NUISCOMP
  3. PAGE BEING BUILT
  4. Running NUISMIN
  5. Running a GENIE Minimization
    1. Generating GENIE Events
      1. Running gevgen
      2. Running PrepareGENIE
    2. Choosing our samples
      1. Writing a card file
      2. Setting up our reweight dials
      3. Running the minimiser (Migrad)
      4. Analysing the output
    3. Alternative Fitting Routines
      1. Running GSL Minimiser Routines
      2. Fixing dials at limits
      3. Running a 1D likelihood scan
      4. Running a 2D likelihood scan
      5. Running a Contour Scan
      6. Generating Post-fit Error Bands
    4. Running a fake data fit

Running NUISMIN

Author: Patrick Stowell

Date: June 2017

Versions: NUISANCE v2r0, GENIE 2.12.6

The following example details how to run NUISANCE and tune a simple model to MiniBooNE_CCQE_XSec_1DQ2_nu data, with additional examples on how to include penalty terms and perform fake data fits.

Each generator requires very slightly different ways to handle NUISANCE, therefore multiple versions of this tutorial have been provided. Please use the following links to choose what generator you would like to use.

Running a GENIE Minimization

In this example we will take pregenerated GENIE events as our starting model and run a tuning to find a best fit value for some of the CCQE Reweight dials in GENIE ReWeight?.

Generating GENIE Events

If we want to see how a given GENIE model behaves, first we need to generate events. This can be done using the standard gevgen application, using the appropriate target and flux for a given data sample.

If all you want to do is check your NUSIANCE is built correctly, you can skip this step by downloading MC files from our online storage area by following the steps found here:LinkToNUISANCEMCFiles

Running gevgen

The standard gevgen application options can be ran using

 $ gevgen -h
Syntax:

      gevgen [-h]
              [-r run#]
               -n nev
               -e energy (or energy range)
               -p neutrino_pdg
               -t target_pdg
              [-f flux_description]
              [-o outfile_name]
              [-w]
              [--seed random_number_seed]
              [--cross-sections xml_file]
              [--event-generator-list list_name]
              [--message-thresholds xml_file]
              [--unphysical-event-mask mask]
              [--event-record-print-level level]
              [--mc-job-status-refresh-rate  rate]
              [--cache-file root_file]

We need to provide a flux and target list to GENIE when running gevgen.

We want to run comparisons to MiniBooNE muon-neutrino scattering data on a mineral oil target, therefore to generate events we pass it the default GENIE splines, the MiniBooNE flux in root format, and the required target and beam peg settings

$ source $GENIE_DIR/environment_setup.sh
$ export GXMLPATH=${GENIE_DIR}/genie_xsec/v2_12_0/NULL/DefaultPlusMECWithNC/data/
$ gevgen -n 2500000 \
                -t 1000060120[0.85714],1000010010[0.14286] \ 
                -p 14 --cross-sections $GXMLPATH/gxspl-FNALsmall.xml \
                --event-generator-list Default -f MiniBooNE_numu_flux.root,numu_mb \
                -e 0,10 -o gntp.2063030.ghep.root

For more information on how to generate events in GENIE please see: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.05494

Once our events have been generated we can check that they have finished correctly by opening the output event file and checking it has a ‘gtree’ object and the checking flux spectrum file contains the correct histogram.

$ root gntp.2063030.ghep.root
root [0]
Attaching file gntp.2063030.ghep.root as _file0...
Warning in <TClass::TClass>: no dictionary for class genie::NtpMCEventRecord is available
Warning in <TClass::TClass>: no dictionary for class genie::NtpMCRecordI is available
Warning in <TClass::TClass>: no dictionary for class genie::NtpMCRecHeader is available
Warning in <TClass::TClass>: no dictionary for class genie::EventRecord is available
Warning in <TClass::TClass>: no dictionary for class genie::GHepRecord is available
Warning in <TClass::TClass>: no dictionary for class genie::Interaction is available
Warning in <TClass::TClass>: no dictionary for class genie::InitialState is available
Warning in <TClass::TClass>: no dictionary for class genie::Target is available
Warning in <TClass::TClass>: no dictionary for class genie::ProcessInfo is available
Warning in <TClass::TClass>: no dictionary for class genie::Kinematics is available
Warning in <TClass::TClass>: no dictionary for class genie::XclsTag is available
Warning in <TClass::TClass>: no dictionary for class genie::KPhaseSpace is available
Warning in <TClass::TClass>: no dictionary for class genie::GHepParticle is available
Warning in <TClass::TClass>: no dictionary for class pair<genie::EKineVar,double> is available
root [1] _file0->ls();
TFile**		gntp.2063030.ghep.root
 TFile*		gntp.2063030.ghep.root
  KEY: genie::NtpMCTreeHeader	header;1	GENIE output tree header
  KEY: TFolder	gconfig;1	GENIE configs
  KEY: TFolder	genv;1	GENIE user environment
  KEY: TTree	gtree;1	GENIE MC Truth TTree, Format: [NtpMCEventRecord]
$ root input-flux.root
root [0]
Attaching file input-flux.root as _file0...
root [1] _file0->ls();
TFile**		input-flux.root
 TFile*		input-flux.root
  KEY: TH1D	spectrum;1	neutrino_flux

Now that the event samples have been generated correctly, we need to prepare them for use in NUISANCE.

Running PrepareGENIE

The standard gevgen application doesn’t save the total event rate predictions into the event file itself. NUISANCE needs these to correctly normalise predictions so before we can use these new events we need to prepare them.

The PrepareGENIE application is built when NUISANCE is built with GENIE support should be available after the NUISANCE environmental setup script is ran.

$ PrepareGENIE -h
PrepareGENIEEvents NUISANCE app.
Takes GHep Outputs and prepares events for NUISANCE.

PrepareGENIEEvents  [-h,-help,--h,--help] 
                                    [-i inputfile1.root,inputfile2.root,inputfile3.root,...] 
                                    [-f flux_root_file.root,flux_hist_name] 
                                    [-t target1[frac1],target2[frac2],...]

Prepare Mode [Default] : Takes a single GHep file, reconstructs the original GENIE splines,  and creates a duplicate file that 
also contains the flux, event rate, and xsec predictions that NUISANCE needs.
Following options are required for Prepare Mode:
 [ -i inputfile.root  ] : Reads in a single GHep input file that needs the xsec calculation ran on it.
 [ -f flux_file.root,hist_name ] : Path to root file containing the flux histogram the GHep records were generated with. A 
simple method is to point this to the flux histogram genie generatrs '-f /path/to/events/input-flux.root,spectrum'.
 [ -t target ] : Target that GHepRecords were generated with. Comma seperated list. E.g. for CH2 
target=1000060120,1000010010,1000010010

The PrepareGENIE application, when ran, loops over all the events, extracts the cross-section as a function of energy for each discrete interaction mode and uses this information to reconstruct the cross-section splines for each target that were used to generate events.

These splines are then multiplied by specified flux and added according to the target definition provided to produce total flux and event rate predictions as a function of energy for the sample and saves them into the events file.

We want to prepare our MiniBooNE events so we pass in the event files, the input flux, and the CH2 target definition.

 $ PrepareGENIE -i gntp.2063030.ghep.root -f input-flux.root,spectrum -t  1000060120,1000010010,1000010010  

Now when we open our event file again, we should see the flux and event rate histograms are now saved into the file ready for NUISANCE to read them.

  KEY: genie::NtpMCTreeHeader	header;1	GENIE output tree header
  KEY: TFolder	gconfig;1	GENIE configs
  KEY: TFolder	genv;1	GENIE user environment
  KEY: TTree	gtree;1	GENIE MC Truth TTree, Format: [NtpMCEventRecord]
  KEY: TDirectoryFile	IndividualGENIESplines;1	IndividualGENIESplines
  KEY: TDirectoryFile	TargetGENIESplines;1	TargetGENIESplines
  KEY: TH1F	nuisance_xsec;1
  KEY: TH1F	nuisance_events;1
  KEY: TH1F	nuisance_flux;1

Choosing our samples

Now that we have an event sample we can load them load them into NUISANCE so that it can use them to form a joint likelihood by specifying them at run time.

Writing a card file

To specify samples we need to write a NUISANCE card file that lists all comparisons that should be made and the event files that should be used for each one.

We want to produce comparisons to MiniBooNE CCQE data, so first we should search the NUISANCE sample list.

The ‘nuissamples’ script is provided for easy access of the sample list. Running it without any arguments will return a full sample list of available data comparisons. Providing an additional argument will return only samples containing the provided substring.

We can list the MIniBooNE samples using

[stowell@hepgw1 ~]$ nuissamples MiniBooNE
MiniBooNE_CCQE_XSec_1DQ2_nu
MiniBooNE_CCQELike_XSec_1DQ2_nu
MiniBooNE_CCQE_XSec_1DQ2_antinu
MiniBooNE_CCQELike_XSec_1DQ2_antinu
MiniBooNE_CCQE_CTarg_XSec_1DQ2_antinu
MiniBooNE_CCQE_XSec_2DTcos_nu
MiniBooNE_CCQELike_XSec_2DTcos_nu
MiniBooNE_CCQE_XSec_2DTcos_antinu
MiniBooNE_CCQELike_XSec_2DTcos_antinu
MiniBooNE_CC1pip_XSec_1DEnu_nu
MiniBooNE_CC1pip_XSec_1DQ2_nu
MiniBooNE_CC1pip_XSec_1DTpi_nu
MiniBooNE_CC1pip_XSec_1DTu_nu
MiniBooNE_CC1pip_XSec_2DQ2Enu_nu
MiniBooNE_CC1pip_XSec_2DTpiCospi_nu
MiniBooNE_CC1pip_XSec_2DTpiEnu_nu
MiniBooNE_CC1pip_XSec_2DTuCosmu_nu
MiniBooNE_CC1pip_XSec_2DTuEnu_nu
MiniBooNE_CC1pi0_XSec_1DEnu_nu
MiniBooNE_CC1pi0_XSec_1DQ2_nu
MiniBooNE_CC1pi0_XSec_1DTu_nu
MiniBooNE_CC1pi0_XSec_1Dcosmu_nu
MiniBooNE_CC1pi0_XSec_1Dcospi0_nu
MiniBooNE_CC1pi0_XSec_1Dppi0_nu
MiniBooNE_NC1pi0_XSec_1Dcospi0_antinu
MiniBooNE_NC1pi0_XSec_1Dcospi0_rhc
MiniBooNE_NC1pi0_XSec_1Dcospi0_nu
MiniBooNE_NC1pi0_XSec_1Dcospi0_fhc
MiniBooNE_NC1pi0_XSec_1Dppi0_antinu
MiniBooNE_NC1pi0_XSec_1Dppi0_rhc
MiniBooNE_NC1pi0_XSec_1Dppi0_nu
MiniBooNE_NC1pi0_XSec_1Dppi0_fhc
MiniBooNE_NCEL_XSec_Treco_nu

We only care about CC1pip data therefore the following samples are of interest

[stowell@hepgw1 ~]$ nuissamples MiniBooNE_CCQE_
MiniBooNE_CCQE_XSec_1DQ2_nu
MiniBooNE_CCQE_XSec_1DQ2_antinu
MiniBooNE_CCQE_CTarg_XSec_1DQ2_antinu
MiniBooNE_CCQE_XSec_2DTcos_nu
MiniBooNE_CCQE_XSec_2DTcos_antinu

In this example we will compare to the CCQE 1DQ2 distributions, but we could provide a large number of the samples seen in the lists if we wanted. When we specify multiple samples nuismin will automatically calculate the likelihood for each one and add them uncorrelated to form a joint likelihood.

We write our card file with these two datasets using the following sample object format:

sample NAME_OF_SAMPLE  INPUT_TYPE:FILE_INPUT    

So if our GENIE file is called 'MiniBooNE_FHC_numu_2.5M.root', our card file will be :

genie_tutorial.card

sample MiniBooNE_CCQE_XSec_1DQ2_nu GENIE:MiniBooNE_FHC_numu_2.5M.root
sample MiniBooNE_CCQE_XSec_1DQ2_antinu GENIE:MiniBooNE_FHC_numu_2.5M.root

If you want to check this is valid you could run this card file with 'nuiscomp' as shown in the tutorial here HowToUseNUISCOMP-GENIE and check the nominal prediction looks okay.

Setting up our reweight dials

Defining Free dials

Checking dial response

Specifying fixed dials

Running the minimiser (Migrad)

How Migrad works

Signal Reconfigures

Saving Nominal Prediction

Analysing the output

Data/MC Comparisons

Iteration Tree

Parameter Tuning Plots

Alternative Fitting Routines

Running GSL Minimiser Routines

Fixing dials at limits

Running a 1D likelihood scan

Running a 2D likelihood scan

Running a Contour Scan

Generating Post-fit Error Bands

Running a fake data fit