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CERN’s Balancing Act Between Unity and Disunity: The “Sister Experiments” UA1 and UA2 and CERN’s First Nobel Prize

In this paper, we employ Ian Hacking’s insight that “unity” has a double meaning, singleness and harmonious integration, to revisit a major episode from the recent history of CERN: the UA1 and UA2 experiments in the early 1980s, which led to the discovery of the W and Z bosons. CERN is a complex ins...

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Autores principales: Panoutsopoulos, Grigoris, Arabatzis, Theodore
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00016-021-00281-5
http://cds.cern.ch/record/2843764