Interlacing of theory, experiment and instrument in accelerator-based experiments: the “theoretical-operational” model

Investigated in Russia:511 (2009)
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Abstract

In accordance with the ideas of I.Hacking and P.Galison, and the “theoretical-operational” structure of experiment of Fock-Lipkin, a symbolic language is developed for the description of structure of a contemporary complex experiment. With its help a particle accelerator-based experiment is analysed as an example of this kind of experiments, where explication and analysis of the following essential features is performed: the roles of instrument, background, data analysis, and their theoretical components. An attempt is made to clarify the concepts of “instrument” and “complexity” of experiment.

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Arkadii Lipkin
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

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