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- catalog abstract ""The Evidence for the Top Quark offers both an historical and a philosophical perspective on an important research 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. Such a theory provides an illuminating explication of the points of contention in the debate over the evidence for the top quark. Philosophers wishing to defend the objectivity of the results of scientific research must face unflinchingly the realities of scientific practice, and this book attempts to do precisely that." "This book will prove to be absorbing reading to a broad swathe of readers including philosophers, physicists, and historians of science."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13161029.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""At the same time, the book seeks to defend an objective theory of scientific evidence based on error probabilities. Such a theory provides an illuminating explication of the points of contention in the debate over the evidence for the top quark. Philosophers wishing to defend the objectivity of the results of scientific research must face unflinchingly the realities of scientific practice, and this book attempts to do precisely that." "This book will prove to be absorbing reading to a broad swathe of readers including philosophers, physicists, and historians of science."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""The Evidence for the Top Quark offers both an historical and a philosophical perspective on an important research 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."".
- catalog description "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 about "evidence" -- 6. A model of the experiment : error-statistical evidence and the top quark -- 7. Bias, uncertainty, and evidence.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical notes and bibliography (p. 297-333) and indexes.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 343 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521827108".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog subject "539.7/2167 21".
- catalog subject "Particles (Nuclear physics) Flavor.".
- catalog subject "QC793.5.Q252 S73 2004".
- catalog subject "Quarks.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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 about "evidence" -- 6. A model of the experiment : error-statistical evidence and the top quark -- 7. Bias, uncertainty, and evidence.".
- catalog title "The evidence for the top quark : objectivity and bias in collaborative experimentation / Kent W. Staley.".
- catalog type "text".