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(your title) ar. Xiv: xxxx [hep-ex] (your name) Physics 56500 – Spring 2018 April, 2018 Physics 56500 Oral Report 1

(delete this slide) § These points are only suggestions – you are not required to address each and every one of them. § Nevertheless, they address most of the questions that people would ask or want answers to in a typical short presentation. § If you have questions, please ask. § I am happy to look at your slides before you present them to give feedback. § Make sure your talk can be delivered in 15 minutes! Don’t go over time! Physics 56500 Oral Report April, 2018 2

Introduction § Explain what the physics signature is § Explain what is measured § Explain what we learn by measuring it § Why should we care? Physics 56500 Oral Report April, 2018 3

Overview of the Measurement § Experiment? Energy? Luminosity? § Typical number of pileup interactions? § Picture of the experimental apparatus? § Which parts are used in the analysis? § For example, what is the rapidity coverage of the muon chambers? Physics 56500 Oral Report April, 2018 4

Description of the analysis § Motivation for the analysis? § What is distinctive about this particular signature? § What are the dominant backgrounds? § Trigger selection? § Offline event selection? § Estimates of event yields and sample purity? Physics 56500 Oral Report April, 2018 5

Description of the analysis § More detailed description of the analysis… § Are multivariate methods used to classify the event sample? § Are jets reconstructed? § Are jets tagged for heavy flavor content? Physics 56500 Oral Report April, 2018 6

Description of the measurement § How are the “final numbers” determined? § How is the likelihood constructed? (in general terms)… § How are systematic uncertainties incorporated into the fit? Physics 56500 Oral Report April, 2018 7

Results § What are the final results? § What are the dominant systematic uncertainties? § Is the measurement statistics limited or systematics limited? § How do the results compare with previous measurements or measurements from competing experiments? § How do the results compare with expectations? Physics 56500 Oral Report April, 2018 8

Conclusions § Will this be an important result in the future? § Are there alternative analysis methods trying to make similar measurements? § What are the prospects for future measurements? Physics 56500 Oral Report April, 2018 9