کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1161029 1490440 2012 20 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The case of the composite Higgs: The model as a “Rosetta stone” in contemporary high-energy physics
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه فیزیک و نجوم فیزیک و نجوم (عمومی)
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The case of the composite Higgs: The model as a “Rosetta stone” in contemporary high-energy physics
چکیده انگلیسی

This paper analyses the practice of model-building “beyond the Standard Model” in contemporary high-energy physics and argues that its epistemic function can be grasped by regarding models as mediating between the phenomenology of the Standard Model and a number of “theoretical cores” of hybrid character, in which mathematical structures are combined with verbal narratives (“stories”) and analogies referring back to empirical results in other fields (“empirical references”). Borrowing a metaphor from a physics research paper, model-building is likened to the search for a Rosetta stone, whose significance does not lie in its immediate content, but rather in the chance it offers to glimpse at and manipulate the components of hybrid theoretical constructs. I shall argue that the rise of hybrid theoretical constructs was prompted by the increasing use of nonrigorous mathematical heuristics in high-energy physics. Support for my theses will be offered in form of a historical–philosophical analysis of the emergence and development of the theoretical core centring on the notion that the Higgs boson is a composite particle. I will follow the heterogeneous elements which would eventually come to form this core from their individual emergence in the 1960s and 1970s, through their collective life as a theoretical core from 1979 until the present day.


► Epistemic analysis of model-building in today’s high energy physics.
► Historical–philosophical case study: models with Higgs boson as composite particle.
► Models as mediators between theoretical cores and particle phenomenology.
► Theoretical cores as hybrid (verbal-empirical-mathematical) constructs.
► Epistemic implications of nonrigorous mathematical heuristics.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics - Volume 43, Issue 3, August 2012, Pages 195–214
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