{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/comment-on-accumulating-evidence-for-the","title":"Comment on \"Accumulating Evidence for the Associate Production of a Neutral Scalar with Mass around 151 GeV\"","arxiv_id":"2109.13426","date":"2021-09-28","proceeding":null,"authors":["Andrew Fowlie"],"abstract":"A recent paper [2109.02650] accumulates evidence for a new fundamental particle by combining several CMS and ATLAS searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson. The putative particle is a neutral scalar, $S$, with a mass of about 151 GeV. The reported significances are $5.1\\sigma$ local and $4.8\\sigma$ global. This nearly reaches the $5\\sigma$ threshold for a discovery in high-energy physics. In this brief note we cast doubt on the strength of the evidence for a new particle. After taking into account the fact that signals were fitted to six different channels, we find that the significances are only $4.1\\sigma$ local and $3.5\\sigma$ global. The code and instructions for reproducing our calculations are available at https://github.com/andrewfowlie/accumulating_evidence.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.13426v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.13426v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"comment-on-accumulating-evidence-for-the","repo_url":"https://github.com/andrewfowlie/accumulating_evidence","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}