Fundamental Issues in Statistical Detection of Physical Phenomena
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Many physics experiments are designed to search for some rare, previously unseen phenomenon which would leave a distinctive event signature in the detector. Generally, there are one or more “background” processes which can mimic the signature, so that detecting the new phenomenon is a matter of observing significantly more events than would be expected from background processes. However, the Bayesian approach to credible interval construction does not, in itself, address the question of whether a given excess should be interpreted as a “detection” of the phenomenon. Unified frequentist (e.g. Feldman-Cousins) approaches to confidence interval construction dictate when the interval should exclude zero, but are rarely (if ever) calculated using a high confidence level that would be appropriate for making a detection. The standard quantitative way to judge the significance of an apparent signal (in excess of the expected background) is to calculate the p-value for the null hypothesis.
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