Creativity and modelling the measurement process of the Higgs self-coupling at the LHC and HL-LHC
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10810747 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sophie Ritson (0000-0003-3596-307X, The University of Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 199 |
| Issue | 5-6 |
| Pages | 11887-11911 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Synthese (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0039-7857 • E-ISSN: 1573-0964 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11229-021-03317-y |
| PMID | 35058660 |
| OpenAlex | W3186918148 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 37 |
This paper provides an account of the nature of creativity in high-energy physics experiments through an integrated historical and philosophical study of the current and planned attempts to measure the self-coupling of the Higgs boson by two experimental collaborations (ATLAS and CMS) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the planned High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC). A notion of creativity is first identified broadly as an increase in the epistemic value of a measurement outcome from an unexpected transformation, and narrowly as a condition for knowledge of the measurement of the self-coupling of the Higgs. Drawing upon Tal’s model-based epistemology of measurement (2012) this paper shows how without change to ‘readings’ (or ‘instrument indicators’) a transformation to the model of the measurement process can increase the epistemic value of the measurement outcome. Such transformations are attributed to the creativity of the experimental collaboration. Creativity, in this context, is both a product, a creative and improved model, and the distributed collaborative process of transformation to the model of the measurement process. For the case of the planned measurements at the HL-LHC, where models of the measurement process perform the epistemic function of prediction, creativity is included in the models of the measurement process, both as projected quantified creativity and as an assumed property of the future collaborations
Context (archaeology) · Creativity · Epistemology · Higgs boson · Large Hadron Collider · Particle physics · Physics · Physics beyond the Standard Model · Process (computing) · Programming language · Computer Science · Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems · Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Scientific Computing and Data Management
The Creative Mind
The Concept of Creativity
Experiments versus models
Creativity and artificial intelligence
Probing novelty at the LHC
Autopsy of measurements with the Atlas detector at the LHC
Creativity, conservativeness & the social epistemology of science
Calibration
Existential risk, creativity & well-adapted science
Securing the Empirical Value of Measurement Results
Creativity and Art
The Philosophy of Creativity
Old and New Problems in Philosophy of Measurement
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |