[Bfys-physics] Fwd: Conference report circulation: CONF-2015-002, Angular analysis of the $B_d^0\to K^{*0}\mu^+\mu^-$ decay Dear colleagues, - bfys-physics@nikhef.nl

11 Mar 2015

  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

        ---------- Forwarded message ----------
        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,
        To: "lhcb-general (LHCb General mailing list)"
        <lhcb-general@cern.ch>

        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
        Deadline:        16-Mar-2015
        e-group:         lhcb-conf-2015-002-reviewers
        Link:            https://cds.cern.ch/record/2000337
        Twiki:        
          https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/viewauth/LHCbPhysics/BdToKstarMuMu

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