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This chapter details the results of the hypothesis testing procedure comparing the compatibility of the observed data with the background-only versus signal plus background hypotheses.
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Specifically, in the limit the Poisson distribution modeling the bin counts can be approximated as a Gaussian distribution, which underlies the bin counts of the \(\chi ^2\) distribution.
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Computationally, this is equivalent to just sampling from \(p(\theta _j|0,1)\).
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While the difference in path length generated by a displaced \(\text {a}\rightarrow \gamma \gamma \) decay vertex is well below the ECAL single-crystal timing resolution, as was the case for \(m_{\Gamma }\) regression, it is nonetheless important to test if there are crystal-by-crystal correlations in the timing distribution of the ECAL detector hits that could be exploited by an end-to-end ML algorithm.
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Andrews, M. (2023). Results. In: Search for Exotic Higgs Boson Decays to Merged Diphotons. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25091-0_9
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