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Signal vs background(s)<br />

• Signal: an event coming <strong>from</strong> the physical process under study<br />

– Example: H ZZe + e - e + e -<br />

• Background: any other event<br />

– ‘Dangerous’ background is any other process giving at least 4 electrons in the final state<br />

• But be careful: electrons seen by detector are reconstructed objects and in some cases<br />

when some other objects (f.g. jets) are miss-reconstructed as electrons<br />

– ‘Trivial’ backgrounds are all other backgrounds and are easily rejected by a simple<br />

requirement of having at least 4 electrons in the final state<br />

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jeudi 25 novembre 2010

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