A Network Account of Models in High Energy Physics Experiments

Koray Karaca*

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Abstract

I propose an account of the model-based structure of the present-day high energy physics experiments in which the relations among the theoretical, experimental and simulation models constitute a non-linear structure that is akin to a network of models (NoM). I argue that while the proposed NoM subsumes Suppes' hierarchy of models (HoM) as the model-based characterization of the inference leading from the data to the validity or invalidity of the hypothesis tested in an experiment, it involves a model-based characterization of the inference leading from the collision of particles to the acquisition of data, which is missing in Suppes' HoM.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)777-796
Number of pages20
JournalPhilosophy of science
Volume90
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 29 Oct 2023

Keywords

  • UT-Hybrid-D

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