Eur. Phys. J. C (2020) 80: 485
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-8033-4

Special Article - Tools for Experiment and Theory

Confronting experimental data with heavy-ion models: Rivet for heavy ions

¹ Niels Bohr Institute, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
² Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Lund University, Sölvegatan 14A, 223 62, Lund, Sweden
³ School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Glasgow, UK
⁴ Department of Physics, Lund University, Professorsgatan 1, 223 62, Lund, Sweden
⁵ School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia
⁶ Institute for Theoretical Physics, Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie, Wolfgang-Gaede-Straße 1, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany
⁷ CERN, Esplanade de Particules 1, Geneva, Switzerland
⁸ Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, 00-662, Warsaw, Poland
⁹ Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
¹⁰ Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
¹¹ Subatech-IMT Atlantique, 4 Rue Alfred Kastler, 44307, Nantes, France

^* e-mail: christian.bierlich@thep.lu.se

Received: 10 March 2020
Accepted: 8 May 2020
Published online: 29 May 2020

Abstract

The Rivet  library is an important toolkit in particle physics, and serves as a repository for analysis data and code. It allows for comparisons between data and theoretical calculations of the final state of collision events. This paper outlines several recent additions and improvements to the framework to include support for analysis of heavy ion collision simulated data. The paper also presents examples of these recent developments and their applicability in implementing concrete physics analyses.