Kent W. Staley

The Evidence for the Top Quark

Objectivity and Bias in Collaborative Experimentation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a historical and philosophical perspective on evidence for the elementary particle known as the top quark.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9780521174251
• ISBN-10: 0521174252
• Artikelnr.: 32465672

Inhaltsangabe

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.