Dr. Francois Le Diberder

CNRS/LAL, France
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I am a recent member of the ATLAS experiment, where I am planning to discover the fourth generation of quarks and leptons with a small team in my laboratory.
I started research in High Energy Physics in, hmm…ok... a bubble chamber experiment (Gargamelle, CERN) where I got bitten by the virus of statistics, in nineteen something.
I then worked in the collaborations: CELLO (DESY, 19something-1988), MARK-II (SLAC, 1989-1990), FFTB (SLAC, 1990-1994),
VIRGO (Pisa, 1990-1996), ALEPH (CERN, 1990-1995), BaBar (SLAC, 1995-2010), and now ATLAS (CERN, 2010 onward).
I got a position at University in 1982: I am now in Paris-VII University, and my current laboratory is LAL-Orsay.
Despite the picture, I am not the King of Statistics, but I somehow got a Kind reputation in the field, which explains why I had
the pleasure to be invited to this school.
However, having a slim culture on Statistics, I cannot pretend at lectures aiming at a full-blown, in depth presentation of the whole subject.
Rather, I will concentrate on some explicit applications of a few tricks, going into the details, with the goal to make you able to apply them and/or to understand results making use of them.

Do you want to know more?

• [1]. M. Pivk and F. Le Diberder, sPlot: a statistical tool to unfold data distributions, Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A555 (2005) 356-369 (a very sweet paper, you won't escape from this one).
• [2]. P. Janot and F. Le Diberder, Optimally combined confidence limits, Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A411 (1998) 449-466 (one of the most abominable paper on earth).
• [3]. J-F. Grivaz and F. Le Diberder, On the determinate of a mass lower limit for the Higgs boson in the presence of candidate events, Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A333 (1993) 320-323 (a nice paper).
• [4]. M. Davier, L. Duflot, A. Rouge and F. Le Diberder, The Optimal method for the measurement of tau polarization, Phys.Lett. B306 (1993) 411-417 (a simple trick which had an immediate, powerful application).
• [5]. F. Le Diberder, Rarity and Exoticness, Mark-II Note 245 (1989), deliberately unpublished (very rare document, if you got a copy I am interested).