Setting limits and making discoveries in CDF
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This paper presents the statistical methods used in setting limits and discovery significances in the search for new particles in the CDF experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron. For single-channel counting experiments the collaboration employs the classical Helene formula, with Bayesian integration over systematic uncertainties in the signal acceptance and background. For more complex cases such as spectral fits and combining channels, likelihood-based methods are used. In the discoveries of the t…
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Date:
May 15, 2000
Creator:
Conway, J.
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