Guidelines for collaboration and chapter development

Groups should consider following these guidelines in order to identify and develop the content of chapters. The work can be divided in three stages: Assessment, Prioritisation, Refinement.

Stage 1: Consider several processes and assess the sensitivity of the SABRE experiment to such processes. Simplify as much as possible: approximate, extrapolate and always consider the best case scenario. Obtain a rough order of magnitude limit and compare it to current limits. If a rough estimate is not possible due to the complexity of the process, then it is probably not deemed to be include in the paper, but it should be possibly investigated at a later stage.

Stage 2: Create a priority list based on expected limits vs current limits for the assessed processes and/or relevance of the result. Proceed to stage 3 walking down the priority list

Stage 3: Work on including the processes in the white paper, starting from the highest in priority. Wherever possible improve the estimate refining assumptions and analysis. Introduce uncertainties if known.

 

Process

Signature

Selection

Background rate

Limits on signal rate

Limit on model parameters

Current limits

 

Process

Signature

Selection

Background rate

Limits on signal rate

Limit on model parameters

Current limits

Assigne to

Theo

Theo

Exp

Exp

Exp

Theo

Theo

Stage 1:

Assessment

Name and reference

Type of interaction, differential rate as required (e.g. recoil energy, theory parameters, time)

Define requirements for each detector (energy range, multiplicity)

Estimate background count for 3 years of data taking and 50 kg of NaI crystal mass

Discovery/exclusion limits based on background rate and stat. unc. only

From rate limits and differential rate formula

Best limits from literature (overall and same type of detector)

Stage 2:

Prioritisation

Create a priority list based on expected limits vs current limits for the assessed processes and/or relevance of the result. Proceed to stage 3 walking down the priority list

Stage 3:

Refinement and writing

Create a section in the paper describing the process

Refine if needed

Refine if needed

Refine, include uncertainties

Refine, include uncertainties

 

 

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