Creativity and modelling the measurement process of the Higgs self-coupling at the LHC and HL-LHC.

This paper provides an account of the nature of creativity in high-energy physics experiments through an integrated historical and philosophical study of the current and planned attempts to measure the self-coupling of the Higgs boson by two experimental collaborations (ATLAS and CMS) at the Large H...

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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 199; no. 5/6; pp. 11887 - 11912
Autor principal: Ritson, Sophie
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Dec2021
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