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Accumulating Evidence for the Associate Production of a Neutral Scalar with Mass around 151 GeV
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<p><strong>Abstract:</strong> To establish...
<p><strong>Abstract:</strong> To establish the discovery of a new phenomenon (for example, a new particle or interaction) an experiment must reach a certain level of statistical significance.</p>
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<p>More precisely, the probability of deviations from the null hypothesis (in which the new particle or interaction is not present) equal or greater than the observed deviation must fall below a certain value.</p>
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<p>This probability is known as the p-value. In the particle physics literature, the p-value is often converted to a significance Z, defined as the number of standard deviations giving the same probability when integrating the standard Gaussian distribution from Z to ∞. Values of the p-value below <span style="font-size: 13px;">2.87×10</span><sup>−<strong>7</strong></sup><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px;">(corresponding to a 5σ significance) usually define a discovery.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 13px;"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/images/ekpepldlbnenlefn.png" style="width: 571px; height: 221px;" /></span></p>
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<p>Attached<strong> “Accumulating Evidence for the Associate Production of a Neutral Scalar with Mass around 151 GeV” </strong>report by <strong>Patrick Bolton (INFN ESR) and Arturo de Giorgi (IFT-UAM ESR).</strong></p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Abstract:</strong> To establish the discovery of a new phenomenon (for example, a new particle or interaction) an experiment must reach a certain level of statistical significance.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>More precisely, the probability of deviations from the null hypothesis (in which the new particle or interaction is not present) equal or greater than the observed deviation must fall below a certain value.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Abstract:</strong> To establish the discovery of a new phenomenon (for example, a new particle or interaction) an experiment must reach a certain level of statistical significance.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>More precisely, the probability of deviations from the null hypothesis (in which the new particle or interaction is not present) equal or greater than the observed deviation must fall below a certain value.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>This probability is known as the p-value. In the particle physics literature, the p-value is often converted to a significance Z, defined as the number of standard deviations giving the same probability when integrating the standard Gaussian distribution from Z to ∞. Values of the p-value below <span style="font-size: 13px;">2.87×10</span><sup>−<strong>7</strong></sup><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px;">(corresponding to a 5σ significance) usually define a discovery.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13px;"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/images/ekpepldlbnenlefn.png" style="width: 571px; height: 221px;" /></span></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Attached<strong> “Accumulating Evidence for the Associate Production of a Neutral Scalar with Mass around 151 GeV” </strong>report by <strong>Patrick Bolton (INFN ESR) and Arturo de Giorgi (IFT-UAM ESR).</strong></p>
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