Hi Marcel,

I have two comments:

1) If I multiply the p-values for 2.9 and 3.0 sigma, I get more something like 4.5 sigma?  ( (2.7x10^-3)**2 = 7.3x10^-6 )
The paper quotes 3.7 sigma; what did I do wrong?
(I also mailed Nicola, but didn't get a reply yet.)

2) I would suggest to make the figures more self-explanatory. (The fact that the details are in the caption does not help much for talks.) In particular, "SM" in Fig.5 refers to Straub, whereas "SM" in Fig.6 refers to Matias.
There is so much debate on the various SM predictions, that the legend "SM" is confusing, I find.
There is plenty of white space to spell out the legend? E.g.:
"SM (Bharucha, Straub, Zwicky)"
"SM (Descotes-Genon et al.)"

Cheers, Niels

On Wed, 11 Mar 2015, Marcel Merk wrote:

Dear bfys friends,
Nikhef is not explicitly asked to give review comments on the paper below
(B-->K*mumu), but given the impact of the result of the 2011 data I would
invite you to have a look and give your comments to the paper. I am willing
to collect the comments of our group. Please send them to me before the
weekend.

cheers,
- Marcel

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From: Rolf Oldeman <rudolf.oldeman@cern.ch>
Date: 10 March 2015 at 23:14
Subject: Conference report circulation: CONF-2015-002, Angular analysis of
the $B_d^0\to K^{*0}\mu^+\mu^-$ decay Dear colleagues,
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A conference report is available for your comments:

Title:           Angular analysis of the $B_d^0\to K^{*0}\mu^+\mu^-$ decay
Contact authors: Christoph Langenbruch, Konstantinos Petridis, Nicola Serra
Reviewers:       Greig Cowan (chair), Stephane T'Jampens, Patrick
Koppenburg, Michael Schmelling (EB)
Analysis note:   ANA-2013-097,  INT-2013-058
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