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SUMMARY:Claim of discoveries based on sigma's - Prof. Giulio D'Agostini (U
 niversity of Rome &quot\;Sapienza&quot\;)
DTSTART:20160919T150000Z
DTEND:20160919T163000Z
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CONTACT:Marco Nardecchia
DESCRIPTION:Frontier Physics is characterized by investigations at the lim
 it of the detector sensitivity and by the fact that the phenomena searched
  for are usually 'mimicked' by other\, less interesting ones ('background'
 ). In the impossibility of providing firm results\, the claims of discover
 y are accompained by a certain number of sigma's. Meaning and the misinter
 pretation related to the ``n-sigma's'' will be illustrated\, also commenti
 ng on recent examples from Particle Physics.
LOCATION:HEP meeting room\, Rutherford Building\, Cavendish Laboratory
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