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Jargon |
Possible replacement |
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"good photon" or "good track" |
Well define how photon/track is selected and use "candidate photon" or "candidate track" |
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"bin" |
"interval" |
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"cut" |
"Each event is required to satisfy R<0.3” |
"event number" | "number of event" |
"error" | "uncertainty" |
"systematics" | "systematic uncertainties" |
"so" | "therefore", "thus", "hence" |
Poorly phrased expressions |
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"the one" or "the ones" | "that" or "those" |
"extract" | "determine" "measure" "calculate" |
Common mistakes |
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"dependency" | "dependence" |
"log" | "ln" (unless you really mean the 10log) |
"smaller than 5" | "less than 5" for continuous quantities, or "fewer than five" for an integer number of items. (Use smaller only for size.) |
can't ; don't ; aren't | can not; do not; are not |
"the smallest chi square" | "the least chi square" |