Presentation of search results: the CLs technique

By A. Read. 2002

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Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Search for squarks and gluinos with the ATLAS detector in final states with jets and missing transverse momentum using 4.7 fb⁻¹ of sqrts=7 TeV proton-pro collision data (2012, positive): “A profile loglikelihood ratio test in combination with the CLs prescription [67] is used to derive 95% CL exclusion regions.”
Collider limits on new physics within micrOMEGAs4.3 (2016, neutral): “The function returns the resulting CL obtained with the CLs technique [68,69] for each SR and chooses the most constraining one.”
The Scientific Method in the Science of Machine Learning (2019, neutral): “Read. Presentation of search results: The CL(s) technique. J. Phys., G28:2693–2704, 2002. doi: 10.1088/0954-3899/28/10/313. [,11(2002)].”
Search for massive, long-lived particles using multitrack displaced vertices or displaced lepton pairs in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector (2015, methodology): “The limits are calculated using the CLS prescription [60] with the profile likelihood used as the test statistic, using the 1 10 2 10 3 10 4 10 5 10 1 10 2 10 3 10 4 10 5 10”
Constraints on the spin-parity and anomalous HVV couplings of the Higgs boson in proton collisions at 7 and 8 TeV (2015, positive): “The CLs criterion [103,104], defined as CLs1⁄4Pðq≥qobsjJPþbkgÞ=Pðq≥qobsj0þþbkgÞ<α, is used for the final inference ofwhether a particular alternative signal hypothesis is excluded or not at a given confidence level ð1 − αÞ.”
Search for charginos nearly mass degenerate with the lightest neutralino based on a disappearing-track signature in pp collisions at √(s) = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector (2013, background): “The upper limit on the production crosssection for a given mχ̃1 and τχ̃1 at 95% CL is set by a point where the CL of the “signal+background” hypothesis, based on the profile likelihood ratio [30] and the CLs prescription [31], falls below 5% when scanning the CL along various values of signal streng”
Search for new phenomena in final states with large jet multiplicities and missing transverse momentum at sqrt(s)=8 TeV proton-proton collisions using the ATLAS experiment (2013, positive): “The resulting exclusion regions are obtained using the CLs prescription [64].”
Higgs Physics at the HL-LHC and HE-LHC (2019, methodology): “To take the information in the the differential distribution mhh into account, we employ a binned log-likelihood analysis based on the CLs method, using the full mhh distribution to extract  [355].”
Measurements of Higgs boson properties in the diphoton decay channel with 36 fb$^{-1}$ of $pp$ collision data at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector (2018, positive): “For category-based measurements the 95% CL upper limit on the parameter of interest ν is determined using the CLs prescription [94].”