Practical statistics for physics analyses (Master and PhD course)

Sesión

20 jun. 2018 10:00

ICMOL seminar room 0.8 -ground floor- (Scientific Park UV)

Descripción

Searches for New Physics: Discovery or Upper Limits. Example of Higgs search.

Lista de contribución Cronograma

1. Introduction

20/6/18 10:00

ntroductory material: Reminder of what should be known from undergraduate days, but with some new insights. Probability and Statistics. Conditional Probability. Combining uncertainties. Combining results. Binomial, Poisson and Gaussian distributions

2. Likelihoods

21/6/18 10:00

Likelihoods for parameter determination. What coverage is. Unbinned likelihood and goodness of fit.

3. Chi-squared for parameters, and for goodness of fit. Number of degrees of freedom. Kinematic fitting. The paradox.

22/6/18 10:00

6. Discoveries

26/6/18 10:00

Searches for New Physics: Discovery or Upper Limits. Example of Higgs search