Hammer ver. 1.4.0

[drob...@lbl.gov]

Dear all,

Version 1.4.0 of Hammer is now available on the Hammer website (https://hammer.physics.lbl.gov) and on the GitLab repo.

Here is a summary of the code changes (please see the manual or readme for more details):

Additions:
- Added "BLRSXP" and "BLRSXPVar" form factor parametrizations for Lb -> Lc, with 1/m_{c,b}^2 corrections via the residual chiral expansion.
- Added Bs -> K l nu modes, and ISGW2 and BCL, BCLVar form factors
- Added Ds** decay cascades for Bs -> Ds** processes.

Changes:
- Bumped to version 1.4, added version-specific doi
- Generalized BGL B -> D* form factor classes to allow an arbitrary number of parameters

Fixes:
- Minor bugs in Lb -> Lc* unit tests
- Problem with Boost >= v1.78.0 on MacOS

A new version of the manual is also available on the website.

Please contact us for your comments/questions at hammer-...@lbl.gov.

As some users may not be on the mailing list, please circulate this to others that might be interested.

Happy reweighting!

The Hammer authors

[Papucci, Michele]

Dear all,

Version 1.4.1 of Hammer is now available on the Hammer website (https://hammer.physics.lbl.gov) and on the GitLab repo.

It is a bug fix version, primarily addressing certain problems with the Python wrapper.

Here is a summary of the code changes (please see the manual or readme for more details):

Fixes:
   - Problems with recent Python/Cython versions >3.11 (#78) as well as overloaded methods
   - Clarified ordering of initRun versus loadRunHeader (relevant only when calling addHistogram with a reloaded event run)