Measuring nothing, repeatedly null experiments in physics /

There have been many recent discussions of the 'replication crisis' in psychology and other social sciences. This has been attributed, in part, to the fact that researchers hesitate to submit null results and journals fail to publish such results. In this book Allan Franklin and Ronald Lay...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Franklin, Allan, 1938- (Autor), Laymon, Ronald L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2019]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 6.
IOP concise physics.
Temas:
Physics > Research.
Physics > Research > History.
Replication (Experimental design)
SCIENCE / Scientific Instruments.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • part I. Falling bodies and the universality of free fall
  • 2. Galileo and free fall
  • 3. Newton's pendulum experiment and replications by Bessel and Potter
  • 3.1. Newton's pendulum experiment
  • 3.2. The experiments of Bessel and of Potter
  • 4. The Eötvös torsional pendulum
  • 5. The Fifth Force and Eötvös redux
  • 5.1. The rise of the Fifth Force
  • 5.2. Its fall
  • 5.3. Tests of the weak equivalence principle
  • 6. Do falling bodies move south?
  • part II. Is there an ether?
  • 7. The Michelson-Morley experiments of 1881 and 1887
  • 7.1. The experiments
  • 7.2. Reaction to the Michelson-Morley null result
  • 7.3. Early replications by Morley and Dayton Miller
  • 7.4. Einstein and beyond
  • 7.5. Replications by Kennedy, Illingworth, Joos and others
  • 8. Dayton Miller and the 'cosmic' solution
  • 8.1. Miller's (1933) paper
  • 8.2. Shankland's 1955 reanalysis of Dayton Miller's data
  • 8.3. Roberts' 2006 analysis of Dayton Miller's data
  • part III. Search for ...
  • 9. Physics beyond the standard model
  • 9.1. Search for SUSY in multijet events with missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV (Sirunyan et al 2017)
  • 9.2. Search for top squarks and dark matter particles in opposite-charge dilepton final states at [checkmark]s = 13 TeV (Sirunyan et al 2018)
  • 9.3. Discussion
  • 10. Neutrinoless double beta decay
  • 10.1. The problem
  • 10.2. The early experiments
  • 10.3. The critics
  • 10.4. The second generation experiments
  • 10.5. Discussion
  • 11. Conclusion
  • 11.1. How do we know it is null result?
  • 11.2. The roles of theory
  • 11.3. Replication in physics and the social sciences.

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