[Hps] Document to Management

[Jaros, John A.]

Dear HPS,

Attached please find our document for JLAB management, explaining why we haven't yet published and indicating recent progress and present status. This was just submitted.

Thanks to a lot of work by the troops, especially Bradley, Takashi, Rafo, and Matt, the major outstanding questions delaying the bump hunt analysis have been answered. New MC has been generated and shown by Matt and Rafo to be consistent with our data. Matt has given us two ways to measure our WAB fraction, and they are compatible. The normalization of our data is now in fair agreement with simulation thanks to Takashi's discovery that an incorrect value for alpha was in the code.  

Next stop, unblinding, then analysis of the entire 2015 data set.

For the EC,

John
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