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Adams, J., et al. 2005. Experimental and Theoretical Challenges in the Search for the Quark Gluon Plasma: The STAR Collaboration’s Critical Assessment of the Evidence from RHIC Collisions. arXiv:nucl-ex/0501009v3.

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• TITLE: Experiments and Functional Realism

  AUTHORS: Edward MacKinnon

  KEYWORDS: Quark Gluon Plasma, Experimental Realism, Standard Model

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Microphysics, Vol.7 No.4, January 11, 2018

  ABSTRACT: This article focuses on interpreting theories when they are functioning in an ongoing investigation. The sustained search for a quark-gluon plasma serves as a prime example. The analysis treats the Standard Model of Particle Physics as an Effective Field Theory. Related effective theories functioning in different energy ranges can have different functional ontologies, or models of the reality treated. A functional ontology supplies a categorial framework that grounds and limits the language used in describing experiments and reporting results. The scope and limitations of such a local functional realism are evaluated.