Fitting a Signal in the Presence of Background

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Relevant courses Physics 129: Particle Physics
Keywords fitting, signal-to-noise
Student levels Advanced undergrads
Learning objectives Gain experience in performing $\chi^2$ fits to histogrammed data; explore how the statistical significance of a signal depends on the number of signal events and the signal-to-background ratio

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Course Semester Instructors Problem sets released
1 Physics 129: Particle Physics Fall 2020 Problem Bank, Marjorie D SHAPIRO, Marjorie Shapiro, Kenny Vetter 14
2 Physics 226: Particle Physics Phenomenology Fall 2021 Simone Pagan Griso 8
3 Physics 129: Particle Physics Fall 2021 Marjorie D SHAPIRO, Marjorie Shapiro 13
4 Physics 129: Particle Physics Fall 2022 Marjorie D SHAPIRO, Marjorie Shapiro 13
5 Physics 226: Particle Physics Phenomenology Fall 2022 Marjorie D SHAPIRO, Marjorie Shapiro 13
6 Physics 129: Particle Physics Fall 2023 Marjorie D SHAPIRO, Marjorie Shapiro 13

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