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An iterative, dynamically stabilized method of data unfolding

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability 2009-07-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We propose a new iterative unfolding method for experimental data, making use of a regularization function. The use of this function allows one to build an improved normalization procedure for Monte Carlo spectra, unbiased by the presence of possible new structures in data. We are able to unfold, in a dynamically stable way, data spectra which can be strongly affected by fluctuations in the background subtraction and simultaneously reconstruct structures which were not initially simulated. This method also allows one to control the amount of correlations introduced between the bins of the unfolded spectrum, when the transfers of events correcting the systematic detector effects are performed.

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@article{arxiv.0907.3791,
  title  = {An iterative, dynamically stabilized method of data unfolding},
  author = {Bogdan Malaescu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.3791},
  year   = {2009}
}

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23 pages, 16 figures

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