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SUMMARY:Recent progress on statistical methods for LHC physics - Dr. Glen 
 Cowan (Royal Holloway\, University of London)
DTSTART:20101014T150000Z
DTEND:20101014T160000Z
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CONTACT:Kazuki Sakurai
DESCRIPTION:Making a discovery at the Large Hadron Collider requires one t
 o reject the hypothesis that the observed data are consistent with known b
 ackground processes\, and in quantifying the significance of a potential s
 ignal one must take into account all known uncertainties.  The talk will d
 escribe recent progress with profile likelihood methods\, which provide a 
 straightforward framework for carrying out this task.  These will be contr
 asted with methods widely used at LEP\nand the Tevatron.  The machinery fo
 r producing combined results of a search\, such as from different decay ch
 annels of the Higgs boson\, will also be described.
LOCATION:Seminar Room B\, Rutherford Building\, Cavendish Laboratory
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