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Old 11-04-2011, 14:27   #6
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Re: Tevatron accelerator yields hints of new particle

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Originally Posted by Maggy J View Post
That made my headache worse.But thanks jo.
I did wonder whether I should give a health warning with the link I provided but thought I could well be the only member having to admit to being technically challenged.

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Reconstruction (adding the daughter particles to work out the parent particle) at these powerful all purposes detectors are is not fantastically accurate, you get plenty of false candidates. To work out if you have found something real you plot all the results in a histogram and something genuine should leave a "bump".

With statistics you can work out the likelihood that what you are looking at is a genuine bump or just randomness producing a bump.
With all the bumping going on my head hurts even more.
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