Higgs Discovery and the Look Elsewhere Effect.
The discovery of the Higgs particle required a signal of 5δ significance. The rigid application of that condition is a convention that disregards more specific aspects of the given experiment. In particular, it does not account for the characteristics of the look elsewhere effect in the individual e...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 82; no. 1; pp. 76 - 97 |
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Cambridge University Press
Jan2015
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