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Add rapidity methods #9
Add rapidity methods #9
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is this
negative
mass trick universal? what's ROOT'sMath::LorentzVector
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ROOT adopts this convention for space-like 4-vectors, so that's some precedent
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I'm trying to think if we should err on the side of not silently produce wrong results
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Depends what one thinks of as being wrong. Negative mass is not ambiguous - but it may be surprising. I'm ok with rolling this back.
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Yeah, I guess I mean if we error, it's trivial for user to do what they want. But not the other way, they may silently get wrong results
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I checked in the Python Vector package and it also conforms to this behaviour:
And I found I missed a
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sign on the mass method, oops! Fixed in incoming commit.