SSP'05 -- Proceedings

	IEEE/SP 13th workshop on Statistical Signal Processing July, 17-20, 2005 - Bordeaux - France

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Title

Opportunities for statistical signal processing in high energy physics

Author(s)

Bruce Denby

Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris

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Abstract

Although sophisticated statistical data analysis techniques are routinely employed high energy physics, the use of statistical signal processing in the field is has until now been rare. Our paper gives an overview of a typical high energy physics data acquisition system, outlining the technologies and tradeoffs involved at each stage. We then argue that the dominant roles of model dependence and systematic errors in final physics analyses render statistical signal processing techniques largely inapplicable at this level. We observe, however, that at the low-level pattern recognition and event reconstruction levels, statistical signal processing techniqes have been making inroads in high energy physics for a number of years, and examples from the literature will be cited.