Sleuth: a Quasi-model-independent Search Strategy for New Physics
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How can we search for new physics when we only vaguely know what it should look like? How can we perform an unbiased yet data-driven search? If we see apparently anomalous events in our data, how can we quantify their “interestingness” a posteriori? We present an analysis strategy (sleuth) that simultaneously addresses each of these questions, and we demonstrate its application to over thirty exclusive final states in data collected by DØ in Run I of the Fermilab Tevatron.
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