Is Sleuth the answer to finding the Higgs at the Tevatron?
Sleuth is an answer to the question: “How do you search for something when you do not know what you are looking for?” For the Standard Model Higgs boson, however, there are very clear predictions as to what to look for, so it is unnecessary to use the machinery of a model-independent search. In addition, dedicated searches for the Higgs boson can take advantage of its predicted properties to create greater sensitivity to a potential signal. So a dedicated search should be expected to discover the Higgs before Sleuth does.
