Sleuth: A quasi-model-independent search strategy for new physics.

Knuteson, B. O.

Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee

关键词: Fermilab tevatron;    Data analysis;    High energy physics;    Exclusive interactions;   

RP-ID  :  DE2001787307

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

美国|英语

来源: National Technical Reports Library

【 摘 要 】

How can we search for new physics when we only vaguely know what it should look like. How can we perform an unbiased yet data-driven search. If we see apparently anomalous events in our data, how can we quantify their 'interestingness' a posteriori. We present an analysis strategy (SLEUTH) that simultaneously addresses each of these questions, and we demonstrate its application to over thirty exclusive final states in data collected by D0 in Run I of the Fermilab Tevatron.