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Could we combine the ATLAS results to get over the 5 sigma mark?
by Devilboy 14y ago
Could we combine the ATLAS results to get over the 5 sigma mark?
- Maro 14y agoIt's possible to combine the data and get a higer significance. AFAIK, Officially, CERN doesn't do these combinations, but independent people do. See here: http://blog.vixra.org/ http://blog.vixra.org/
- karpathy 14y agoAny idea about what prevents them from combining the data?
- DeepDuh 14y agoThose two detectors are attached to the same accelerator, right? My guess is they don't because they cannot guarantee the results to be independent from each other?
- zbyszek 14y agoThat's about it. See also http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2012/06/28/why-we-shouldnt-combine-higgs-searches-across-experiments/ http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2012/06/28/why-we-shouldnt-com...
- mattheww 14y agoCMS and ATLAS will do an official combination. For example, it was done for 2011: http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.1488 http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.1488.
- Maro 14y agoThis paper combines different channels from CMS, but not CMS and ATLAS. "In this Letter, we report on the combination of Higgs boson searches carried out in proton-proton collisions at Sqrt[s] = 7 TeV using the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the LHC. ... Combined results are reported from searches for the SM Higgs boson in proton-proton collisions at Sqrt[s] = 7TeV in five Higgs boson decay modes: gg, bb, tt, WW, and ZZ."