Missing experimental challenges to the Standard Model of particle physics

Perović, Slobodan

doi:10.1016/j.shpsb.2010.12.003

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“…(Franklin [2015], pp. 159-60) Another relevant HEP experiment is the one where 'a SLAC team [missed] the discovery of pions even though their apparatus was producing it in a required way' (Perovic [2011], p. 39). In this experiment, 'the experimenters were based on an 21 Interesting events could also be missed out due to deficiencies in the technical implementation of the data selection procedure.…”

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Two Senses of Experimental Robustness: Result Robustness and Procedure Robustness

Karaca

2022

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

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In the philosophical literature concerning scientific experimentation, the notion of robustness has been solely discussed in relation to experimental results. In this article, I propose a novel sense of experimental robustness that applies to experimental procedures. I call the foregoing sense of robustness ‘procedure robustness’ (PR) and characterize it as the capacity of an experimental procedure to maintain its intended function invariant during the experimental process despite possible variations in its inputs. I argue that PR is a precondition for what I call ‘result robustness’ (RR), which refers to the traditional sense of experimental robustness, namely, the existence of convergent experimental results obtained through different and independent means of detection. Furthermore, I argue, PR and RR constitute useful experimental strategies in the context of high-energy physics experiments, but these strategies are not without limitations. 1Introduction2Robustness of Experimental Results 2.1The case of the Ke2+ branching ratio experiment2.2The case of the CDF experiment3Robustness of Experimental Procedures4The Data Selection Problem in the ATLAS Experiment5The Robustness of the Data Selection Procedure in the ATLAS Experiment6Conclusions

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“…incorrect estimate of the energy of the alpha-particles they were producing, as they thought the apparatus could not reach the 95 MeV needed for the production of pions' (Perovic [2011], p. 39).…”

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Two Senses of Experimental Robustness: Result Robustness and Procedure Robustness

Karaca

2022

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

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“…As Chang tells us, "Tightening the circle, in the sense of involving fewer assumptions" can make the "the refutation more decisive" (Chang 2001, 284) and thus constitutes a more severe test. The complexity of such an experimental context consists, rather, in dealing with the staggering numbers of particle interactionsand this raises a very different epistemological problem (Perovic 2011).…”

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Theory driven experimentation in particle physics

Perović¹

2013

Belgr Philosop Ann

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“…He demonstrates this using relevant examples in chemistry. Perovic (2011) analyses how subtle changes in experimental conditions influence the possibility of emerging and often crucial alternative theoretical accounts in particle physics, while Dawid, Hartman, and Sprenger (2014) offer a Bayesian analysis of theoretical preferences when viable theoretical alternatives are not available.…”

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“…The experimentalists often do not fare significantly better; to mention one illustrative example, by overlooking an alternative theoretical model, CERN physicists failed to detect a new kind of mesons their apparatus was readily producing(Pais 1986, 97). SeePerovic (2011) for similar examples.…”

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Alternative explanations of the cosmic microwave background: A historical and an epistemological perspective

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Perović

2018

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in

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Abstract:We historically trace various non-conventional explanations for the origin of the cosmic microwave background and discuss their merit, while analyzing the dynamics of their rejection, as well as the relevant physical and methodological reasons for it. It turns out that there have been many such unorthodox interpretations; not only those developed in the context of theories rejecting the relativistic ("Big Bang") paradigm entirely (e.g., by Alfvén, Hoyle and Narlikar) but also those coming from the camp of original thinkers firmly entrenched in the relativistic milieu (e.g., by Rees, Ellis, Rowan-Robinson, Layzer and Hively). In fact, the orthodox interpretation has only incrementally won out against the alternatives over the course of the three decades of its multi-stage development. While on the whole, none of the alternatives to the hot Big Bang scenario is persuasive today, we discuss the epistemic ramifications of establishing orthodoxy and eliminating alternatives in science, an issue recently discussed by philosophers and historians of science for other areas of physics. Finally, we single out some plausible and possibly fruitful ideas offered by the alternatives.

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Missing experimental challenges to the Standard Model of particle physics

Cited by 5 publications

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Two Senses of Experimental Robustness: Result Robustness and Procedure Robustness

Two Senses of Experimental Robustness: Result Robustness and Procedure Robustness

Theory driven experimentation in particle physics

Alternative explanations of the cosmic microwave background: A historical and an epistemological perspective

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