Blunt Honesty, Incentives, and Knowledge Exchange

We propose a simple mechanism to facilitate the buying and selling of useful, bluntly honest information. The for-profit, arm's length knowledge exchange this mechanism enables may dramatically increase the pace of scientific progress.Comment: 3 page

Solution to the LHC Inverse Problem

The "LHC Inverse Problem" refers to the question of determining the underlying physical theory giving rise to the signals expected to be seen at the Large Hadron Collider. The solution to this problem (Bard) is reviewed. The combination of CDF and D0 data is motivated.Comment: Talk presented at DIS 2006 and PHENO 2006; 4 page

Sleuth: A Quasi-Model-Independent Search Strategy for New Physics

How can we search for new physics when we only vaguely know what it should look like? How can we perform an unbiased yet data-driven search? If we see apparently anomalous events in our data, how can we quantify their "interestingness" a posteriori? We present an analysis strategy (Sleuth) that simultaneously addresses each of these questions, and we demonstrate its application to over thirty exclusive final states in data collected by D0 in Run I of the Fermilab Tevatron.Comment: 4 pages, presented at Moriond QCD 200

Bard: Interpreting New Frontier Energy Collider Physics

No systematic procedure currently exists for inferring the underlying physics from discrepancies observed in high energy collider data. We present Bard, an algorithm designed to facilitate the process of model construction at the energy frontier. Top-down scans of model parameter space are discarded in favor of bottom-up diagrammatic explanations of particular discrepancies, an explanation space that can be exhaustively searched and conveniently tested with existing analysis tools.Comment: 3 pages, 2 figure