Demystifying The Five-Sigma Criterion - Part IV And Summary
Monday, August 19, 2013 - 05:00
in Astronomy & Space
Note: this is the fourth, and last, part of a four-part article on the five-sigma criterion for discovery claims in particle physics. If you haven't read the first three installments, the text below may or may not make much sense to you... Below I first add some information about the dijet resonance of CDF (thanks Andrea for pointing me to the relevant material) then I deal with one last topic to be considered, and then summarize the discussion.The last word on the CDF dijet mass bump at 150 GeV read more