The Evidence for the Top Quark: Objectivity and Bias in Collaborative ExperimentationThe Evidence for the Top Quark offers both a historical and philosophical perspective on an important recent discovery in particle physics: the first evidence for the elementary particle known as the top quark. Drawing on published reports, oral histories, and internal documents from the large collaboration that performed the experiment, Kent Staley explores in detail the controversies and politics that surrounded this major scientific result.At the same time the book seeks to defend an objective theory of scientific evidence based on error probabilities. |
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The Evidence for the Top Quark: Objectivity and Bias in Collaborative ... Kent W. Staley No preview available - 2004 |
The Evidence for the Top Quark: Objectivity and Bias in Collaborative ... Kent W. Staley No preview available - 2011 |
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accelerator algorithm Amidei antiprotons b-tagging b-tagging group background baryons Bedeschi bosons calorimeter Campagnari candidate events CDF detector CDF members CDF physicists CDF's chamber Chapter colliding beams concept of evidence counting experiments CP violation D-zero discovery discussed drift chambers electron epistemic error error-statistical evidence claim Evidence paper evidential expected experimental Fermilab GeV/c² godparents Goldstein hadron ibid Incandela interaction jet vertexing kinematic KM paper Kobayashi and Maskawa Kondo lepton Liss magnetic Maki mesons method Monte Carlo muon Nagoya model neutrino null hypothesis number of candidate outcome particle pb-¹ physics predesignation produced proposed protons relevant requirement Roy Schwitters run Ia Sakata sample SECVTX Shochet signal significance calculation significance level Sliwa SLT analysis SLT search statistical stopping rule SVX b-tagging tagged Tevatron theory of evidence tion Tipton Tollestrup top decays top group top mass top quark top search tracking W boson X-particle yield