From a boson to the standard model Higgs: a case study in confirmation and model dynamics

DOI10.1007/S11229-019-02216-7MaRDI QIDQ2695417zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Cristin Chall, Peter Mättig, Michael Stöltzner, Martin P. King

Publication date 31 March 2023

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02216-7

zbMATH Keywords

confirmationempirical epistemologyHiggs bosonLakatosian research programmesmodel dynamicsparticle physics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

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