Thank you for your answer, but I was not able to find that book online or in the library to read up on (for free). However, I actually think the reflection is indeed polarization dependent, just not exactly in the way it was explained in the video. I found this post...
I've seen this video:
There it is explained that an electromagnetic (here radio) wave has a phase shift if it was radiated in horizontal polarization, but it does not experience the phase shift when it was emitted vertically polarized when it gets reflected on the ground.
When reading up on...
Is the significance of an excess calculated by Asimov formula given in units of sigma?
Z_0 = \sqrt{2((s+b) ln(1+ s/b)-s)}
where s are the signal events and b are the background events. If no, how can I calculate it in units of sigma?
Thank you in advance!
Thank you very much, but that still doesn't answer the questions:
1) Why and how is the resolution important for the decision of how to bin the data? Or why not just bin it with the resolution bin width?
2) If the natural width of the particle is smaller than the resolution, then it would be...
I found this article, where some people were discussing the results from ATLAS and CMS: http://paperity.org/p/75529578/phenomenology-of-a-750-gev-singlet
On page 2 you can find a table with the bins, and the background and signal events. Could you send me a link to the original paper? I have...
Thank you very much for you answer, that was helpful! I have tried to understand a couple of those papers regarding the excess at 750 GeV and also other diphoton mass spectra channels during the Higgs search. Unfortunately, I didn't always find the information I was after. For the 750 GeV excess...
Homework Statement
A new particle with the mass of 317 GeV and natural width which is much smaller than the mass resolution of the detector is under investigation. It decays into two photons with equal energies, which are detected in the electromagnetic calorimeter. If one searches the particle...