2002/11/25 by Eilam Gross, Gross, Eilam, Amit Klier +2
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #hep-ex
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ex/0211058
22 pages including 14 figures, typo corrected, compact plots replace "heavy" ones
openalex publication_date 2002/11/25 · arxiv created 2002/12/08 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We review the results of the Standard Model Higgs boson search at LEP. An emphasis is put on revealing the details behind the statistical procedure developed by the LEP Higgs working group. The procedure is explained using a toy model which allows the reader to estimate the significance of the experimental observation which led at the time to a scientific debate on whether LEP has observed a 115 GeV Higgs boson.