2011/07/01 by Julien Baglio, Baglio, Julien, Abdelhak Djouadi +5 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-ex #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1107.0281
17 pages, 3 figures. Extended version of talks given at several winter conferences by the authors
arxiv created 2011/07/01 · openalex publication_date 2011/07/01 · arxiv updated 2011/07/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In this note, we respond to the comments and criticisms made by the representatives of the CDF and D0 collaborations on our recent papers in which we point out that the theoretical uncertainties in the Higgs production cross section have been largely un- derestimated and, if properly taken into account, will significantly loosen the Tevatron Higgs exclusion bounds. We show that our approach to the theoretical uncertainties is reasonable and fully justified. In particular, we show that our procedure is not very different from that adopted by the LHC experiments and if the latter is used in the Tevatron case, one obtains much larger uncertainties that those assumed by the CDF and D0 collaborations. Furthermore, we provide additional details on our statistical analysis of the CDF and D0 exclusion limit and show that it is conceptually correct.