The tables contain the largest value of transverse momentum at generator level per event ID in the Minimum Bias sample. It can be used as argument to the applyPUcleaning command.

To obtain such tables, produce n-tuples from the MinBias sample that was used to simulate the pileup of the samples of interest, then use getHighScalePUeventIDs on the raw ntuples.

To find the right MinBias sample, find a PPD expert to guide you through the follow recipe:

check the Chained Request and find the DRPremix request;
the Premix (a NeutrinoGun sample) is then given by the so-called pileup_dataset property of that request;
repeat the two first steps with the Premix to find the MinBias sample.

Note: for the UL18 jet data, the tables were produced with command getHighScalePUeventIDs with 9 as threshold. A cut of 3*pthat (2*pthat) was used in getHighScalePUeventIDs.cc (applyPUcleaning.cc, only if the rec jet pT is larger than 156 GeV—this is subject to changes).

Large file storage

The tables being rather large, please use git LFS to handle them. Here is a brief recipe on how to proceed:

If you have never used git LFS and if it is not installed (it should be done automatically by the installer from 2e22f769), run first of all git lfs install (do this once per local repo).
If you want to pull an existing file, run git lfs pull.
If you want to push a new file, first use git lfs track [file] (do this once per file), then handle the file as usual with git add and git commit (do this each time you change the file).