Seeing the big picture: particle physics meta-analysis and reinterpretation

Speaker: Professor Andy Buckley FInstP, Lecturer and Royal Society Reseach Fellow, University of Glasgow
Big experiments in particle physics, such as the several mammoth apparatus operating at the Large Hadron Collider, have issued thousands of data analyses papers in the last decade, many of them searching for signs of new physics beyond the Standard Model. So far, there is no smoking-gun evidence, meaning that many previously leading hypotheses have been ruled out. But how much of that data also rules out ideas they were not designed for, especially when datasets are combined and used all at once rather than one at a time?
In this talk Prof Buckley will introduce the ideas and challenges of analysis preservation, reinterpretation, and their potential for getting maximum scientific value from particle-physics experiments.
About the Speaker
Lecturer and Royal Society research fellow in particle physics. Principle investigator of Glasgow ScotDIST centre for doctoral training. See http://www.ppe.gla.ac.uk/~abuckley/ for full personal Web page.