Is it really most likely that new physics will predominantly reveal itself in one Sleuth channel?
As a practical matter, a significant excess in a single localized final state will be necessary for a discovery claim — the field will not believe a story that links together five 2&sigma effects. In addition, quantum mechanics (and our detectors) are such that significant fine-tuning is required for a signal to appear at nearly equal strength in two or more Sleuth final states. Top quark pair production is a good example: although top quark pair production results in a number of different final states, the final state Wbbjj carried most of the statistical weight in the argument for the top discovery. As was done for the top discovery in 1995, Sleuth gathers the Vista final states 1e+1pmiss1b3j, 1e+1pmiss2b2j, 1mu+1pmiss1b3j, and 1e+1pmiss2b2j into its single Sleuth final state Wbbjj.
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