Underestimating the uncertainty of aggregated results: the case of W-Boson mass

Abstract Estimates of uncertainty or variance in experimental means are central to physics. This is especially the case for ‘world averages’ of fundamental parameters in particle physics, which aggregate results from a number of experiments to express current knowledge about these parameters and whe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fintan Costello, Paul Watts
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2023-09-01
Series:European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11973-2