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		have_faith on June 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nig... Very large efforts are made to predict noise floors within data, prevent it, account for it, average over it with multiple tests, etc.

a9h74j on June 15, 2022 [–]

Indeed, AFAIK part of the progress, even while their are no discoveries being made, is in having a better-calibrated detector. In part, better statistics yield better calibration.

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