RIVET Plug-in for $Z^0 \to e^+ e^-$ Production Cross-Section Measurement in pp Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7$ TeV

The Robust Independent Validation of Experiment and Theory (RIVET) project is an efficient and portable tool kit in form of a C++ class library enabling validation and tuning of Monte Carlo (MC) event generator models in elementary particle physics and astrophysics. It provides a large collection of standard experimental analyses useful for MC generator development, validation, tuning and regression testing proposing a new way by which analysis code from the LHC and other high-energy collider experiments is preserved for comparison and development of future theory models. The RIVET plug-in developed for the LHCb measurement of Z 0 ! e + e ...