Speaker
Dr
Eilam Gross
(Weissman Institute of Physical Sciences)
Description
The LHC was built as a discovery machine, whether for a Higgs Boson or Supersymmetry.
In this review talk we will concentrate on the methods used in the HEP community to test hypotheses. We will cover via a comparative study, from the LEP hybrid "CLs" method and the Bayesian TEVATRON exclusion techniques to the LHC frequentist discovery techniques. We will explain how to read all the exclusion and prospective discovery plots with their yellow and green bands and how to include systematics in a significance calculation. The review is aimed to be pedagogical.
Author
Dr
Eilam Gross
(Weissman Institute of Physical Sciences)
