2–5 Apr 2024
DESY Hamburg
Europe/Berlin timezone

Unfolding Lecture

4 Apr 2024, 11:15
1h 30m
Seminarraum Flash (DESY Hamburg)

Seminarraum Flash

DESY Hamburg

28c

Speaker

Vincent Croft

Description

In high-energy physics, unfolding is a critical statistical process for interpreting experimental data that is complicated by the intrinsic ill-posedness of the problem. This complexity arises from the need to provide heuristics for statistical estimates that disentangle true physical phenomena from observational distortions. We present a typical roadmap for why, when, and how unfolding is applied in high energy physics experiments and how the treatment of uncertainties influences considerations such as the choice of algorithm and regularisation.

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