To Profile or To Marginalize -- A SMEFT Case Study

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Main Authors: Brivio, Ilaria, Bruggisser, Sebastian, Elmer, Nina, Geoffray, Emma, Luchmann, Michel, Plehn, Tilman
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Published: 2022
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author Brivio, Ilaria
Bruggisser, Sebastian
Elmer, Nina
Geoffray, Emma
Luchmann, Michel
Plehn, Tilman
author_facet Brivio, Ilaria
Bruggisser, Sebastian
Elmer, Nina
Geoffray, Emma
Luchmann, Michel
Plehn, Tilman
contents Global SMEFT analyses have become a key interpretation framework for LHC physics, quantifying how well a large set of kinematic measurements agrees with the Standard Model. This agreement is encoded in measured Wilson coefficients and their uncertainties. A technical challenge of global analyses are correlations. We compare, for the first time, results from a profile likelihood and a Bayesian marginalization for a given data set with a comprehensive uncertainty treatment. Using the validated Bayesian framework we analyse a series of new kinematic measurements. For the updated dataset we find and explain differences between the marginalization and profile likelihood treatments.
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spellingShingle To Profile or To Marginalize -- A SMEFT Case Study
Brivio, Ilaria
Bruggisser, Sebastian
Elmer, Nina
Geoffray, Emma
Luchmann, Michel
Plehn, Tilman
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Global SMEFT analyses have become a key interpretation framework for LHC physics, quantifying how well a large set of kinematic measurements agrees with the Standard Model. This agreement is encoded in measured Wilson coefficients and their uncertainties. A technical challenge of global analyses are correlations. We compare, for the first time, results from a profile likelihood and a Bayesian marginalization for a given data set with a comprehensive uncertainty treatment. Using the validated Bayesian framework we analyse a series of new kinematic measurements. For the updated dataset we find and explain differences between the marginalization and profile likelihood treatments.
title To Profile or To Marginalize -- A SMEFT Case Study
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.08454