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Collisions and Collaboration - The Organization of Learning in the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC (Hardcover, New)
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Collisions and Collaboration - The Organization of Learning in the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC (Hardcover, New)
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After twenty-five years of preparation, the Large Hadron Collider
at CERN, Geneva, is finally running its intensive scientific
experiments into high-energy particle physics. These experiments,
which have so captured the public's imagination, take the world of
physics to a new energy level, the terascale, at which elementary
particles are accelerated to one millionth of a percent of the
speed of light and made to smash into each other with a combined
energy of around fourteen trillion electron-volts. What new world
opens up at the terascale? No one really knows, but the confident
expectation is that radically new phenomena will come into view.
The kind of "big science" being pursued at CERN, however, is
becoming ever more uncertain and costly. Do the anticipated
benefits justify the efforts and the costs? This book aims to give
a broad organizational and strategic understanding of the nature of
"big science" by analyzing one of the major experiments that uses
the Large Hadron Collider, the ATLAS Collaboration. It examines
such issues as: the flow of "interlaced" knowledge between
specialist teams; the intra- and inter-organizational dynamics of
"big science"; the new knowledge capital being created for the
workings of the experiment by individual researchers, suppliers,
and e-science and ICTs; the leadership implications of a
collaboration of nearly three thousand members; and the benefits
for the wider societal setting.
This book aims to examine how, in the face of high levels of
uncertainty and risk, ambitious scientific aims can be achieved by
complex organizational networks characterized by cultural
diversity, informality, and trust--and where "big science" can head
next.
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