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Team and Project Composition in Big Physics Experiments

Struktura timova i projekata u velikim eksperimentima u oblasti fizike

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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.

Identifikovanje optimalnih načina organizovanja istraživanja u mega laboratorijama fizike če-stica je izazovan zadatak koji zahteva kombinaciju studija pojedinačnih slučajeva i pristupa formalne epistemičke analize. Studije zasnovane na podacima ukazuju na to da su projekti koje izvode manji master timovi (manji broj članova, manje pod-timova) znatno efikasniji od onih većih u različitim oblastima nauka, uključujući eksperimentalnu fiziku čestica. Manji ti-movi takođe prave bolje izbore projekata na kojima će raditi od većih, centralizovanih timova. Pa ipak, epistemički opravdani zahtev sa što manjim, decentralizovanim i raznolikim timova je u suprotnosti sa često naglašenom i navodno neizbežnom logikom otkrića koja prisiljava fizičare koji istražuju osnovne nivoe fizičkog sveta da izvode centralizovane eksperimente u mega-laboratorijama na veoma velikim energijama. Naš je argument, međutim, da bi taj epi-stemički zahtev mogao ipak biti ispunjen, jer su priroda teorijskih i fizičkih og...raničenja u fizici visokih energija i tehnološke prepreke koje iz njih proizilaze iznenađujuće otvoreni.

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social epistemology / networks / science / physics / technology / innovation
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Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society, 2019, 30, 4, 535-542
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  • Beograd : Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju

DOI: 10.2298//FID1904535P

ISSN: 0353-5738

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Perović, S.. (2019). Team and Project Composition in Big Physics Experiments. in Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society
Beograd : Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju., 30(4), 535-542.
https://doi.org/10.2298//FID1904535P
Perović S. Team and Project Composition in Big Physics Experiments. in Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society. 2019;30(4):535-542.
doi:10.2298//FID1904535P .
Perović, Slobodan, "Team and Project Composition in Big Physics Experiments" in Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society, 30, no. 4 (2019):535-542,
https://doi.org/10.2298//FID1904535P . .

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