Discovery or construction?: astroparticle physics and the search for physical reality
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 11
INTRODUCTION 13
1. THE SITUATION AFTER THE SCIENCE WARS 13
2. THE AIM O F THIS STUDY 13
3. THE IMPORTANCE O F THE DEBATE BETWEEN REALISM AND SOCIAL
CONSTRUCTIVISM ABOUT THE DYNAMICS O F RESEARCH 15
4. THE STRUCTURE O F THIS INVESTIGATION 18
1. CHAPTER: THE REALISM DEBATE 21
1. INTRODUCTION 21
2. THE REALISM DEBATE IN THE HISTORY O F PHYSICS 22
3. THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVIST VIEW ON THE DEVELOPMENT O F PHYSICS 31
4. THE MEANING O F THE DISPUTE BETWEEN REALISM AND CONSTRUCTIVISM 41 5.
REALISTIC AND CONSTRUCTIVIST CASE STUDIES 4 7
6. IMPULSES FOR THE DISCUSSION BETWEEN REALISM AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM
FROM ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS 51
2. CHAPTER: ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS: A N OVERVIEW F O R PHILOSOPHERS 55 1.
INTRODUCTION 55
2. PHENOMENA O F ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS 56
2.1 PHENOMENOLOGY O F CHARGED COSMIC RAYS 57
2.2 PHENOMENOLOGY O F GAMMA-RAYS 59
2.3 PHENOMENOLOGY O F THE COSMIC NEUTRINOS 67
2.4 PARENTHESIS FOR PHILOSOPHERS: THE CONCEPT O F PHENOMENON 69
3. EXPERIMENTS, OBSERVATORIES AND TECHNIQUES IN ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS 71
3.1 THE SATELLITE DETECTORS 72
3.1.1. PAMELA [PAYLOAD FOR ANTIMATTER MATTER EXPLORATION AND LIGHT-
NUCLEI ASTROPHYSICS] 73
3.1.2 FERMI-LAT [FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE] 76
3.2 THE BALLOON-EXPERIMENTS 79
3.2.1 ATIC [ADVANCED THIN IONIZATION CALORIMETER] 80
3.2.2 TIGRE [TRACKING AND IMAGING GAMMA-RAY EXPERIMENT]. 81
3.3 THE FLUORESCENCE EXPERIMENTS 82
3.4 THE AIR SHOWER GROUND EXPERIMENTS 84
3.4.1 THE PIERRE AUGER EXPERIMENT)) 85
3.5 THE IMAGE GENERATING AIR-CHERENKOV TELESCOPES 88
3.6 THE UNDERGROUND DETECTORS 89
3.7 THE EXPERIMENTS O F ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS AND THE DISCUSSION BETWEEN
REALISM AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM 91
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4. THEORETICAL MODELS IN ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS 95
4.1 MODELS O F SOURCES AND SPECTRA O F COSMIC RADIATION 96
4.2 MODELS O F DARK (AND/OR EXOTIC) MATTER 103
4.3 MODELS O F QUANTUM GRAVITY 106
4.4 THE THEORETICAL MODELS IN ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS AND THE DEBATE
BETWEEN REALISM AND CONSTRUCTIVISM 107
5. FINAL COMMENTS ON THE DISCOVERY AND CONSTRUCTION O F PHENOMENA IN THE
FIELD O F ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS 109
3. CHAPTER: MAGIC 117
1. INTRODUCTION 117
2. THE MAGIC COLLABORATION 118
3. THE MAGIC TELESCOPES 120
3.1 COMPONENTS O F THE MAGIC TELESCOPES 121
3.2 TESTS O F MAGIC 130
3.2.1 TESTS TO CHECK THE MIRRORS O F MAGIC II 130
3.2.2 CHECKS TO TEST THE OPERABILITY O F THE LASERS FOR OPTICAL
TRANSMISSION O F SIGNALS FROM THE CAMERA TO THE COUNTING HOUSE. 133
3.3.3 TESTS RELATED TO THE UPDATE O F THE DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM OF
MAGIC I 135
3.3.4 TESTS IN RELATION TO THE UPDATE O F THE CAMERA 136
3.3.5 TESTING THE PROPER FUNCTION O F THE TELESCOPE 138
4. THE ANALYSIS CHAIN O F MAGIC 147
4.1 THE WURZBURG-ANALYSIS CHAIN 147
3. STEP O F WURZBURG CHAIN: GANYMED 151
4. STEP O F WURZBURG CHAIN: SPONDE 153
4.2 THE BARCELONA ANALYSIS CHAIN 153
4.3 MONTE-CARLO SIMULATIONS 155
4.3.1 CORSIKA 157
4.3.2 REFLECTOR 157
4.3.3 CAMERA 158
4.4 PHILOSOPHICAL COMMENTS ABOUT THE ADMISSIBILITY O F THE ANALYSIS
METHOD O F THE MAGIC DATA 159
5. SOME LESSONS TO BE DRAWN FROM MAGIC REGARDING THE DEBATE BETWEEN
REALJSM AND CONSTRUCTIVISM 161
4. CHAPTER: ICECUBE 165
1. INTRODUCTION 165
2. SOCIAL FORCES: EXTRA SCIENTIFIC ASPECTS O F LARGE SCIENTIFIC
COLLABORATIONS 166
3. THE ICECUBE COLLABORATION 170
4. THE WORK O F THE ICECUBE COLLABORATION 174
4.1 INTRODUCTING REMARKS 174
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4.2 THE ICECUBE DETECTOR 176
4.3 THE ANALYSIS O F THE ICECUBE DATA 184
4.4 ICECUBE AND AMANDA 190
5. ICECUBE AND THE DEBATE BETWEEN REALISM AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM 193
5. CHAPTER: CONCLUSIONS AND OUTLOOK 201
1. INTRODUCTION 201
2. REMARKS ABOUT THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVIST AND REALISTIC INTERPRETATIONS
O F DYNAMICS O F RESEARCH WITHIN THE FIELD O F ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS 201
3. FUTURE CONSTRUCTIVIST AND REALISTIC DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FIELD OF
ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS 203
4. REALISM OR SHEER CONSERVATISM? ABOUT THE INTERPRETATION O F THE
EXAMPLES EXAMINED IN THIS STUDY 206
5. ABOUT THE SCOPE O F THE RESULTS O F THIS STUDY 211
6. WHAT FOLLOWS WHEN SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVIST ANALYSIS O F DYNAMICS OF
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IS NOT CORRECT? 213
BIBLIOGRAPHY 217
INDEX 227 |
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