The evidence for the top quark : objectivity and bias in collaborative experimentation /
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| Author / Creator: | Staley, Kent W. (Kent Wade), 1963- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004. |
| Description: | xvi, 343 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5155041 |
Table of Contents:
- 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
