What’s New¶
The major novelties of all releases since v1.0 are as follows:
New in Version 2.1.0:¶
- Ability to merge Databases using ‘+’ as a delimiter: “latest_fastlim” and “official_fastlim” are now written as “latest+fastlim”, and “official+fastlim”.
- useSuperseded flag in getExpResults is marked as deprecated, as we now just put superseded results in separate database
- datasets now have an .isCombinableWith function
- slightly extended output of summary printer
- added scan summary (summary.txt) when running over multiple files
- added option to slha-printer (expandedOutput)
- improved interactive plots
New in Version 2.0.0:¶
- Introduction of particle class
- Introduction of model class (see Basic Input)
- Input model can now be defined by an SLHA file with QNUMBERS blocks
- Unified treatment of SLHA and LHE input files (see decomposer and LHE-reader)
- Decomposition and Experimental Results can now handle lifetime dependent results
- Added field “type” to the experimental results in the database
- Added (optional) field “intermediateState” to the experimental results in the database
- Inclusive branches can now describe inclusive vertices
- Added possibility for analysis specific detector size
- New missing topologies algorithm and output
- Added “latest” and “latest_fastlim” Database abbreviations
- Added support for central database server
- Small bug fix in likelihood computation
- Small fix due to an API change in pyhf 0.6
- Changes in output: width values added, coverage groups and others (see output description for details)
- Added option for signal strength multipliers in cross section calculator
- Small bug fixes in models
New in Version 1.2.4:¶
- added pyhf support
- pickle path bug fix
- bug fix for parallel xseccomputers
- Introduced the SMODELS_CACHEDIR environment variable to allow for a different location of the cached database file
- fixed dataId bug in datasets
New in Version 1.2.3:¶
- database updated with results from more than 20 new analyses
- server for databases is now smodels.github.io, not smodels.hephy.at
- small bug fix for displaced topologies
- small fix in slha printer, r_expected was r_observed
- Downloaded database files now stored in $HOME/.cache/smodels
New in Version 1.2.2:¶
- Updated official database, added T3GQ eff maps and a few ATLAS 13 TeV results, see github database release page
- Database “official” now refers to a database without fastlim results, “official_fastlim”, to the official database with fastlim
- List displaced signatures in missing topologies
- Improved description about lifetime reweighting in doc
- Fix in cluster for asymmetric masses
- Small improvements in the interactive plots tool
New in Version 1.2.1:¶
- Fix in particleNames.py for non-MSSM models
- Fixed the marginalize recipe
- Fixed the T2bbWWoff 44 signal regions plots in ConfrontPredictions in manual
New in Version 1.2.0:¶
- Decomposition and experimental results can include non-MET BSM final states (e.g. heavy stable charged particles)
- Added lifetime reweighting at decomposition for meta-stable particles
- Added finalState property for Elements
- Introduction of inclusive simplified models
- Inclusion of HSCP and R-hadron results in the database
New in Version 1.1.3:¶
- Support for covariance matrices and combination of signal regions (see combineSR in parameters file)
- New plotting tool added to smodelsTools (see Interactive Plots Maker)
- Path to particles.py can now be specified in parameters.ini file (see model in parameters file)
- Wildcards allowed when selecting analyses, datasets, txnames (see analyses, txnames and dataselector in parameters file)
- Option to show individual contribution from topologies to total theory prediction (see addTxWeights in parameters file)
- URLs are allowed as database paths (see path in parameters file)
- Python default changed from python2 to python3
- Fixed lastUpdate bug, now giving correct date
- Changes in pickling (e.g. subpickling, removing redundant zeroes)
- Added fixpermissions to smodelsTools.py, for system-wide installs (see Files Permissions Fixer)
- Fixed small issue with pair production of even particles
- Moved the code documentation to the manual
- Added option for installing within the source folder
New in Version 1.1.2:¶
- Database update only, the code is the same as v1.1.1
New in Version 1.1.1:¶
- C++ Interface
- Support for pythia8 (see Cross Section Calculator)
- improved binary database
- automated SLHA and LHE file detection
- Fix and improvements for missing topologies
- Added SLHA-type output
- Small improvements in interpolation and clustering
New in Version 1.1.0:¶
- the inclusion of efficiency maps (see EM-type results)
- a new and more flexible database format (see Database structure)
- inclusion of likelihood and \(\chi^2\) calculation for EM-type results (see likelihood calculation)
- extended information on the topology coverage
- inclusion of a database broswer tool for easy access to the information stored in the database (see database browser)
- the database now supports also a more efficient binary format
- performance improvement for the decomposition of the input model
- inclusion of new simplified results to the database (including a few 13 TeV results)
- Fastlim efficiency maps can now also be used in SModelS