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Recycling Expertise and Instrumental Loyalty

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Allan Franklin
Allan Franklin*
Affiliation:
University of Colorado
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†Department of Physics, Campus Box 390, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80302–0390 Allan.Franklin@Colorado.EDU
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Abstract

In this paper I will examine the history of the first three, of a sequence of five, experiments performed by the Mann-O'Neill collaboration at the Princeton-Pennsylvania Accelerator. The experiments were conducted over a period of four years and measured aspects of K+ meson decay. Each of the experiments was done with essentially the same basic apparatus, with modifications for each of the specific measurements. We will see the increasing expertise of the experimenters as the experiments progressed. The third measurement was technically more difficult and built upon the acquired knowledge of how the experimental apparatus worked.

Type
Symposium: Patterns in the Interrelation of Experiment, Instrumentation, and Theory
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 64 , Issue S4: Supplement. Proceedings of the 1996 Biennial Meetings of the Philosophy of Science Association. Part II: Symposia Papers Dec., 1997 , 1997 , pp. S42 - S52
Copyright
Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1997

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