Tevatron Higgs Searches: Past And Future
Friday, February 5, 2010 - 08:21
in Mathematics & Economics
To see the future, you must know the past: these nine words nicely summarize a syllogism which knows few exceptions. Turning to known data to check the power of one's extrapolations is a quite well-founded scientific approach. So if we are to try and guesstimate how much will the CDF and DZERO experiments manage to deliver in the next few years, we must check how well they delivered this far, by comparing results with early expectations. But why bother ? Well, of course because there is a real challenge on: bookmakers need to tune the odds they offer! Fermilab versus CERN read more