Type-I Error or Mass Bias ? An Investigation on the Omega_b Discovery

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2009-10-12

arxiv.org/abs/0910.2136v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Experiment

14 pages, 12 figures; uses included cmspaper style files

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The D0 and CDF collaborations recently published two independent analyses that both claim to represent the observation of the Omega_b particle, a baryon made up by a (bss) quark combination. Both signals are estimated to exceed the statistical significance of five standard deviations; however, the mass measurements derived from the candidates differ by over six standard deviations, accounting for estimated systematics. Measured rates also appear to differ, although they remain compatible within the large uncertainties. In this paper the author recomputes the significance of the D0 result, showing that it was considerably overestimated in the original publication; he then investigates with a pseudoexperiment-based approach which, among different hypotheses, appears the most likely cause of the observed discrepancy between the D0 and CDF signals.

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