Team and project composition in big physics experiments
Апстракт
Identifying optimal ways of organizing exploration in particle physics mega-labs is a challenging task that requires a combination of case-based and formal epistemic approaches. Data-driven studies suggest that projects pursued by smaller master-teams (fewer members, fewer sub-teams) are substantially more efficient than larger ones across sciences, including experimental particle physics. Smaller teams also seem to make better project choices than larger, centralized teams. Yet the epistemic requirement of small, decentralized, and diverse teams contradicts the often emphasized and allegedly inescapable logic of discovery that forces physicists pursuing the fundamental levels of the physical world to perform centralized experiments in mega-labs at high energies. We explain, however, that this epistemic requirement could be met, since the nature of theoretical and physical constraints in high energy physics and the technological obstacles stemming from them turn out to be surprisingly ...open-ended.
Кључне речи:
technology / social epistemology / science / physics / networks / innovationИзвор:
Filozofija i društvo, 2019, 30, 4, 535-542Издавач:
- Univerzitet u Beogradu - Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju, Beograd
DOI: 10.2298//FID1904535P
ISSN: 0353-5738
WoS: 000505152600005
Scopus: 2-s2.0-85077622616
Институција/група
Filozofija / PhilosophyTY - JOUR AU - Perović, Slobodan PY - 2019 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2925 AB - Identifying optimal ways of organizing exploration in particle physics mega-labs is a challenging task that requires a combination of case-based and formal epistemic approaches. Data-driven studies suggest that projects pursued by smaller master-teams (fewer members, fewer sub-teams) are substantially more efficient than larger ones across sciences, including experimental particle physics. Smaller teams also seem to make better project choices than larger, centralized teams. Yet the epistemic requirement of small, decentralized, and diverse teams contradicts the often emphasized and allegedly inescapable logic of discovery that forces physicists pursuing the fundamental levels of the physical world to perform centralized experiments in mega-labs at high energies. We explain, however, that this epistemic requirement could be met, since the nature of theoretical and physical constraints in high energy physics and the technological obstacles stemming from them turn out to be surprisingly open-ended. PB - Univerzitet u Beogradu - Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju, Beograd T2 - Filozofija i društvo T1 - Team and project composition in big physics experiments EP - 542 IS - 4 SP - 535 VL - 30 DO - 10.2298//FID1904535P ER -
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Perović, S.. (2019). Team and project composition in big physics experiments. in Filozofija i društvo Univerzitet u Beogradu - Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju, Beograd., 30(4), 535-542. https://doi.org/10.2298//FID1904535P
Perović S. Team and project composition in big physics experiments. in Filozofija i društvo. 2019;30(4):535-542. doi:10.2298//FID1904535P .
Perović, Slobodan, "Team and project composition in big physics experiments" in Filozofija i društvo, 30, no. 4 (2019):535-542, https://doi.org/10.2298//FID1904535P . .