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Statistical tools and precision of searching for the Higgs boson at the LHC

Popular Physics 2020-05-21 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Statistical tools have been developed to quantify the agreement between a hypothesis or a model and the observed data for probabilistic phenomena. In this work, we define statistical methods used to measure the properties of the higgs boson in the LHC on the one hand, but also to evaluate the uncertainty and precision on these measurements. They are based on the definition of a likelihood function whose construction will be detailed below. The challenge of HEP is to generate tons of data and to develop powerful analyses to tell if the data indeed contains evidence for the new particle, and confirm it's the expected Higgs boson.

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@article{arxiv.1911.09004,
  title  = {Statistical tools and precision of searching for the Higgs boson at the LHC},
  author = {Abdeljalil Habjia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.09004},
  year   = {2020}
}

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arXiv admin note: This submission has been withdrawn by arXiv administrators due to an irreconcilable authorship dispute