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I was looking at the attached picture, where it gives the Higgs Mass obtained from the two different channels from ATLAS and CMS.
Let's only talk about the diphoton channel : [itex]H\rightarrow \gamma \gamma[/itex]
From the ATLAS the mass value is:
[itex]m_{Ah} =126.02 \pm 0.51[/itex]
and the CMS:
[itex]m_{Ch} =124.70 \pm 0.34[/itex]
Now it gives the combined result from ATLAS+CMS:
[itex]m_{ACh}=125.07 \pm 0.29[/itex]
How can obtain the mean and error for the ATLAS+CMS?
I tried getting the weights [itex]w_i = \sum_j (C^{-1})_{ij} \Big/ \sum_{kl} (C^{-1})_{kl}[/itex] with [itex]C[/itex] the covariance matrix. Since they are different detectors they are not correlated and so the covariance matrix only has the variances on the diagonal. I obtain:
[itex]w_A \approx 3.84468/12.4952[/itex]
[itex]w_C \approx 8.65052/12.4952[/itex]
And I calculate the combined mass:
[itex]\bar{m}_{ACh} = \sum_i w_i m_{ih} = 125.106[/itex]
I also tried to combine the errors. For the errors I used the statistical and systematic, given by:
[itex]syst= \sqrt{\sum_{ij} w_i w_j C_{ij}^{sys}}=\sqrt{w_A^2 0.27^2 + w_C^2 0.15^2}=0.133 \approx 0.13[/itex]
[itex]stat= \sqrt{\sum_{i} w_i^2 C_{ii}^{stat}}=\sqrt{w_A^2 0.43^2 + w_C^2 0.31^2}=0.252 \approx 0.25[/itex]
and [itex] \sigma_{tot} =\sqrt{(syst)^2+(stat)^2} =0.284 \approx 0.28[/itex]
My result reads:
[itex]m_{h}^{(A+C,2\gamma)}(GeV) = 125.106 \pm 0.28 ( 0.25_{stat} \pm 0.13_{sys})[/itex]
in comparison to
[itex]m_{h}^{(A+C,2\gamma)}(GeV) = 125.07 \pm 0.29 ( 0.25_{stat} \pm 0.14_{sys})[/itex]
given ..The problem appears in the systematic error...
Any idea? Mine is that the measurements are considered somehow correlated in the systematics?
Let's only talk about the diphoton channel : [itex]H\rightarrow \gamma \gamma[/itex]
From the ATLAS the mass value is:
[itex]m_{Ah} =126.02 \pm 0.51[/itex]
and the CMS:
[itex]m_{Ch} =124.70 \pm 0.34[/itex]
Now it gives the combined result from ATLAS+CMS:
[itex]m_{ACh}=125.07 \pm 0.29[/itex]
How can obtain the mean and error for the ATLAS+CMS?
I tried getting the weights [itex]w_i = \sum_j (C^{-1})_{ij} \Big/ \sum_{kl} (C^{-1})_{kl}[/itex] with [itex]C[/itex] the covariance matrix. Since they are different detectors they are not correlated and so the covariance matrix only has the variances on the diagonal. I obtain:
[itex]w_A \approx 3.84468/12.4952[/itex]
[itex]w_C \approx 8.65052/12.4952[/itex]
And I calculate the combined mass:
[itex]\bar{m}_{ACh} = \sum_i w_i m_{ih} = 125.106[/itex]
I also tried to combine the errors. For the errors I used the statistical and systematic, given by:
[itex]syst= \sqrt{\sum_{ij} w_i w_j C_{ij}^{sys}}=\sqrt{w_A^2 0.27^2 + w_C^2 0.15^2}=0.133 \approx 0.13[/itex]
[itex]stat= \sqrt{\sum_{i} w_i^2 C_{ii}^{stat}}=\sqrt{w_A^2 0.43^2 + w_C^2 0.31^2}=0.252 \approx 0.25[/itex]
and [itex] \sigma_{tot} =\sqrt{(syst)^2+(stat)^2} =0.284 \approx 0.28[/itex]
My result reads:
[itex]m_{h}^{(A+C,2\gamma)}(GeV) = 125.106 \pm 0.28 ( 0.25_{stat} \pm 0.13_{sys})[/itex]
in comparison to
[itex]m_{h}^{(A+C,2\gamma)}(GeV) = 125.07 \pm 0.29 ( 0.25_{stat} \pm 0.14_{sys})[/itex]
given ..The problem appears in the systematic error...
Any idea? Mine is that the measurements are considered somehow correlated in the systematics?
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