.. _significance: *************** Significance *************** Significance estimations ProfileLikelihood Calculator (roostats) nominal case / no systematics: using the entire mass range 7-14 x2 = 0.213796 +/- 0.0881078 x23 = 0.148275 +/- 0.0576889 the significance of this is 6.3 sigma modified case i: restrict fit range truncating the range to 8-14 x2 = 0.185549 +/- 0.0896092 x23 = 0.126762 +/- 0.064579 the significance goes down to 5.4 sigma modified case ii: discard events performing the nominal fit to a sub-set of the data (to inflate stat errors) ********************************* Toy-based p-value estimtation ********************************* plan: generate about 10**6 pseudo-experiments with either no systematics or latest evaluations (15\% for X23 and 10% for X2) *********************** Profile likelihood ratio *********************** Force x2 = 1, x3 = 1 .. image:: pyplots/ForceNoSuppreshiFitPt4.0.png :width: 300 .. image:: pyplots/ForceNoSuppresppFitPt4.0.png :width: 300 .. _importance_sampling: Importance Sampling ----------------- RooFitResult: minimized FCN value: -79598.1, estimated distance to minimum: 0.000187477 covariance matrix quality: Full, accurate covariance matrix Constant Parameter Value -------------------- ------------ mscale_hi 1.0000e+00 mscale_pp 1.0000e+00 npow 2.3000e+00 x2 1.0000e+00 x3 1.0000e+00 Floating Parameter InitialValue FinalValue +/- Error GblCorr. -------------------- ------------ -------------------------- -------- alpha 1.1178e+00 1.0872e+00 +/- 1.16e-01 bkg_a1_pp 3.6390e-01 2.9483e-01 +/- 8.27e-02 bkg_a2_pp -4.3799e-01 -5.8112e-01 +/- 9.17e-02 decay_hi 6.0756e+00 6.5805e+00 +/- 7.83e-01 f2 1.1883e-01 1.6712e-01 +/- 2.62e-02 f3 2.4369e-02 7.1444e-02 +/- 2.42e-02 mean_hi 9.4552e+00 9.4555e+00 +/- 4.18e-03 mean_pp 9.4457e+00 9.4512e+00 +/- 1.12e-02 nbkg_hi 1.1670e+04 1.1546e+04 +/- 1.44e+02 nbkg_pp 3.3735e+02 3.8035e+02 +/- 2.32e+01 nsig1_hi 1.3177e+03 1.3158e+03 +/- 7.35e+01 nsig1_pp 8.8229e+01 1.0544e+02 +/- 1.29e+01 sigma1 7.9382e-02 7.9284e-02 +/- 4.38e-03 turnOn_hi 7.8960e+00 7.7720e+00 +/- 1.89e-01 width_hi 2.2974e+00 2.2925e+00 +/- 2.56e-01 chi2/ndf = (74.997 + 71.282)/125 = 1.170 chi2 prob = 0.0938 min nll = -79598.11763910 the delta of S is : 20.1263 the delta of ndof is : 2 the C.L. is : 1 the significance level is : 6.01342 (one side) the C.L. is : 1, the significance level is : 6.01342 sigma (one side) ******************************************************************************* evaluate significance for systematic variations back of the envelope checks ******************************************************************************* based on nominal fit results from individual fits: PbPb N_{2S+3S}/N_{1S} 0.155 +/- 0.038 N_{2S}/N_{1S} 0.127 +/- 0.027 pp N_{2S+3S}/N_{1S} 0.879 +/- 0.17 N_{2S}/N_{1S} 0.496 +/- 0.12 pp-PbPb N_{2S+3S}/N_{1S} 0.724 +/- 0.17 N_{2S}/N_{1S} 0.369 +/- 0.12 pp-PbPb: #sigmas away from zero [note this assumes gaussian errors] 0.72/0.17 = 4.3 0.37/0.12 = 3.1 maximum significance allowed by pp data alone (assume full suppression in PbPb): 0.879/0.17=5.2 0.496/0.12=4.1 from simultaneous fit: x23 = 0.147 +/- 0.048 x2 = 0.214 +/- 0.069 x3 = 0.059 +/- 0.060 #sigmas away from unit [note however ratio of gaussian pdf's is not gaussian!] (1 - 0.147) / 0.048 ~ 18 (1 - 0.214) / 0.069 ~14 .. _importance_sampling: Importance Sampling ----------------- .. plot:: pyplots/xsection.py :include-source: .. image:: pyplots/UPC_pt_graphlog.png :ref:`custom_look`.