Pierre-Hugues Beauchemin (Tufts University)
Signature-based model-independent searches for new physics at the LHC seem to correspond to Steinle and Burian's conception of exploratory experiments. They also seem to support Bogen and Woodward's conception of phenomena. This paper however demonstrates that by aiming at safeness, using type-2 error as a criterion, signature-based experimental procedures proceed from strategies necessarily involving some level of theory-ladeness about the targeted-phenomena. Such experimental procedures would therefore better be characterized as Strategy-Driven Experiments, a concept recently developed by Karaca. The analysis of this paper also challenges the possibility that Bogen and Woodward's data-based reasoning generally applies to High Energy Physics experiments.
