Systematic uncertainties
Performance of b jet identification in the ATLAS experiment
... The systematic effects tend to cancel in the ratios that define the system8 correction factors, leading to much reduced systematic uncertainties for ...
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Search for rare or forbidden decays of the $D^{0}$ meson
... The uncertainties associated with the fit model parametrizations of the signal modes are estimated by repeating the fits with alternative PDFs and also with the fixed signal parameters allowed to vary within the ...
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Top pair production at CMS (includes charge asymmetry and ttbar resonance)
... dominant systematic uncertainties are the uncertainty on the background estimation in the semi- leptonic channels and the uncertainty on trigger and lep- ton e ffi ciencies in the di-leptonic ...
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Measurements of the vector boson production with the ATLAS detector
... experimental systematic uncertainties added in quadrature, while the outer band shows the total uncertainty, including the luminosity uncertainty which almost entirely cancel in these ...PDF ...
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Measurements of the proton-air cross section with high energy cosmic ray experiments
... or systematic uncertainties is then concluded from folding the detector e ffi ciency and resolution in the ...the systematic uncertainties is then concluded from comparing the data directly to ...
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Observation of H -> b(b)over-bar decays and V H production with the ATLAS detector
... only uncertainties in the normalisation of these backgrounds are ...Acceptance uncertainties are estimated for the relative normalisations of the different regions that share a common floating normalisation ...
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Measurements of top quark pair to Z boson cross section ratios at s=13, 8, 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
... total systematic uncertainties, the latter encompassing experimental, luminosity, beam-energy, and some theoretical uncertainties (as explained in section ...
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Improvements to a long-term Rayleigh-scatter lidar temperature climatology by using an optimal estimation method
... of systematic uncertainties and the vertical res- olution of the ...random uncertainties, and the vertical resolution of the retrieval on a profile-by-profile ...
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Dynamical QCD simulations on anisotropic lattices
... The final, tuned point was found to lie marginally out- side the triangle used for the plane fit procedure, so the end result was based on an extrapolation rather than an inter- polation. This increases both the ...
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Measuring Cosmic Acceleration And Constraining Dark Energy Models With Transients Discovered In The Dark Energy Survey
... bias-correct observables (Shariff et al., 2016) and incorporate selection effects directly into the model (Rubin et al., 2015). Here we summarize a new method called Steve (H18: Hinton et al. 2018), which makes use of ...
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Charmless B decays
... where the ratio of fragmentation fractions is determined by an independent LHCb analysis [26, 27]. The dominating systematic uncertainties come from the calibration of the particle identification e ffi - ...
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Measurement of the Drell Yan triple differential cross section in pp collisions at s=8 TeV
... The background-subtracted data are unfolded to fiducial cross sections using the in- verse of the response matrix obtained using an iterative Bayesian unfolding method [66] in which the prior is improved at each ...
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B production in pPb at 5.02 TeV from CMS
... (systematic) uncertainties The listed global systematic uncertainty is not included in the data ...theoretical uncertainties for the FONLL ...
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New Physics Beryond the SM at BESIII
... of systematic uncertainties, where the number of the signal and background events are assumed to follow a Poisson distribution, the detection e ffi ciency is assumed to follow a Gaussian distribution, and ...
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How to Make a Mudsparkler
... The systematic uncertainty in the background subtraction method comes from two sources that relate to how well the background channels are modeled in the gen- erator and how well detector resolutions are modeled ...
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Measurement of double-differential muon neutrino charged-current interactions on C8 H8 without pions in the final state using the T2K off-axis beam
... the systematic uncertainties which arise from model dependencies, and to produce results that are useful for comparison with the present and future ...
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Evidence for the rare decay B -> K(*)l(+)l(-) and measurement of the B -> Kl(+)l(-) branching fraction
... for systematic uncertainties in the significance by simultaneously in- cluding all effects that individually lower the fit yields prior to computing the change in ...atic uncertainties, is 3:3 (3:8 ...
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Production and spectroscopy at LHCb
... The inner error bars indicate the statistical uncertainty whilst the outer error bars indicate the sum of the statistical and systematic uncertainties in quadrature. Charge-conjugate mod[r] ...
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Measurement of the top quark mass using the matrix element technique in dilepton final states
... statistical uncertainties in the esti- mation of systematic ...statistical uncertainties for the signal modeling and jet and electron energy resolu- tion are ...the systematic uncertainty, we ...
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Measurements of ep→e′π+π−p′ cross sections with CLAS at 1.40GeV <W < 2.0 GeV and 2.0 GeV2 <Q2 < 5.0 GeV2
... The uncertainties of the resonant contributions were estimated from the quadrature sum of the statistical and systematic uncertainties of the measured integrated cross sections, assuming that the ...
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