Output details

Combined search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in pp collisions at sqrt[s]=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

I co-wrote the paper with two others in a 3-month period. I defined the scope of the paper, incorporating overview figures for all of the input channels and an extended description of the statistical methods including the treatment of nuisance parameters for the correlated systematic uncertainties. I contributed to the combination methodology, highlighting issues in the treatment of correlations, and proposed a new, more consistent, treatment of upward and downward statistical fluctuations in the probability distributions compared to earlier papers. I submitted the paper to PRD, which was accepted without editorial changes, immediately prior to the preliminary Higgs discovery results.