RECYCLING EXPERTISE AND INSTRUMENTAL LOYALTY

Authors
Citation
A. Franklin, RECYCLING EXPERTISE AND INSTRUMENTAL LOYALTY, Philosophy of science, 64(4), 1997, pp. 42-52
Citations number
5
Journal title
ISSN journal
00318248
Volume
64
Issue
4
Year of publication
1997
Supplement
S
Pages
42 - 52
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-8248(1997)64:4<42:REAIL>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
In this paper I will examine the history of the first three, of a sequ ence of five, experiments performed by the Mann-O'Neill collaboration at the Princeton-Pennsylvania Accelerator. The experiments were conduc ted over a period of four years and measured aspects of K+ meson decay . Each of the experiments was done with essentially the same basic app aratus, with modifications for each of the specific measurements. We w ill see the increasing: expertise of the experimenters as the experime nts progressed. The third measurement was technically more difficult a nd built upon the acquired knowledge of how the experimental apparatus worked.