Sleuth: A Quasi-Model-Independent Search Strategy for New Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
How can we search for new physics when we only vaguely know what it should look like? How can we perform an unbiased yet data-driven search? If we see apparently anomalous events in our data, how can we quantify their "interestingness" a posteriori? We present an analysis strategy (Sleuth) that simultaneously addresses each of these questions, and we demonstrate its application to over thirty exclusive final states in data collected by D0 in Run I of the Fermilab Tevatron.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0105027,
title = {Sleuth: A Quasi-Model-Independent Search Strategy for New Physics},
author = {Bruce Knuteson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0105027},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, presented at Moriond QCD 2001