Oral History Interviews: Series 1. Selected Experiments.

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Oral History Interviews: Series 1. Selected Experiments.

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Experiments were conducted at the following laboratories: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) facility of Cornell University's Newman Laboratory, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). Interviews were conducted with members of the experiment's collaboration using a structured question set covering all stages in the collaborative research process: the formation of the collaboration and its personnel; the drafting of the proposal and the experiment's relationship to current theory and experimental techniques; funding for U.S. groups by the National Science Foundation or Department of Energy; delegation of responsibilities for design, construction, and testing of the experiment's detector and its components; use of subcontractors; development of software for data collection and analysis; drafting and presenting results in journals and at conferences and other meetings; assessment of the experiment's success; the collaboration's decision-making style; role of the spokesperson, graduate students, and postdocs; impact of internationalism; patterns of communication; records creation, use, distribution, and retention; also, comments on the experiment's accelerator site, the interviewee's home institution, and trends in graduate education in high-energy physics.

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