Evidence for the Top Quark - Objectivity and Bias in Collaborative Experimentation

Klappentext This book offers a historical and philosophical perspective on evidence for the elementary particle known as the top quark. Zusammenfassung This book offers both a historical and philosophical perspective on an important recent discovery in particle physics: evidence for the elementary particle known as the top quark. At the same time the book seeks to defend an objective theory of scientific evidence based on error probabilities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Origins of the third generation of matter; 2. Building a detector and a collaboration to run it; 3. Doing physics: CDF closes in on the top; 4. Writing up the evidence: The evolution of a result; 5. Run Ib: 'Observation' of the top quark, and second thoughts and 'evidence'; 6. A model of the experiment: Error statistical evidence and the top quark; 7. Bias, uncertainty, and evidence; Epilogue.

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• Authors: Kent W. Staley, Kent W. (St Louis University Staley, Staley Kent W.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2011
• EAN: 9780521174251
• ISBN: 978-0-521-17425-1
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Philosophy of Science, Particle & high-energy physics, Particle and high-energy physics, SCIENCE / Physics / Particle