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

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Kent Staley, Kent W. Staley, Kent W. (St Louis University Staley, STALEY KENT W, Staley Kent W.
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 05.04.2004
• EAN: 9780521827102
• ISBN: 978-0-521-82710-2
• Pages: 360
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Philosophie: général, ouvrages de référence; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Philosophie; Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Sciences naturelles en général; SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Philosophy of Science, Particle & high-energy physics, Particle and high-energy physics, SCIENCE / Physics / Particle