id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_f7lnqkzdx5debjgohdxmfeu4am Richard Dawid Higgs Discovery and the Look Elsewhere Effect 2015 17 .pdf application/pdf 9887 454 52 The discovery of the Higgs particle required a signal of five sigma significance. that data amounted to significant evidence for a new scalar particle but did not constitute a the data with theoretical knowledge about the Higgs particle and, on that basis, argued that The standard model of particle physics introduces the Higgs mechanism in order to experimentation in high energy physics that is called the look elsewhere effect (LEE). reasonable limit for acknowledging a discovery of a new particle once one takes into experiment, a Higgs-like particle is looked for in about 80 energy bins at the LHC. that the collected data cannot be accounted for by the set of empirically confirmed particles reasoning generated trust in the existence of a Higgs particle. existence of the Higgs particle was far more likely than new physics that could explain the evidence collected in 2012 amounted to the discovery of a Higgs particle on any account. ./cache/work_f7lnqkzdx5debjgohdxmfeu4am.pdf ./txt/work_f7lnqkzdx5debjgohdxmfeu4am.txt