Confidence Limits News Today

Courtesy of CERN 01/14/21 By Stephanie Melchor The ATLAS collaboration has begun to publish likelihood functions, information that will allow researchers to better understand and use their experiment’s data in future analyses. Meyrin, Switzerland, sits serenely near the Swiss-French border, surrounded by green fields and the beautiful Rhône river. But a hundred meters beneath the surface, protons traveling at nearly the speed of light collide and create spectacular displays of subatomic fir...