the ATLAS collaboration in 2012.
The black points are observed numbers of real events, and the red
histogram is the expectation from
non-Higgs backgrounds. By comparing the black points in the two
bins nearest to 125 GeV with the
red histogram, is there significant evidence for the Higgs boson at
this mass? Explain your reasoning.
You can assume the background prediction has a relative uncertainty
of 10% (this is the systematic
uncertainty indicated by the grey hatching). As with the previous
problem, answer this both in terms
of some number of standard deviations and a probability.
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