Deliverables of A1
This page collects the output of project A1, "The formation and development of the concept of virtual particles" within the DFG Research Unit "The epistemology of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)". For the list of deliverables of project A2, see here.
- Publications in refereed journals
- Theses
- Awards
- Other publications
- Invited Talks
- Organization of project-related events
- Contributed talks
Publications in refereed journals
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R. Harlander, J.-P. Martinez, F. Steinle, A. Wüthrich,
"Virtual Entities in Science",
Perspectives on Science (Special Issue) (forthcoming) -
F. Steinle,
"How to Conceive Virtual Entities: Peirce's Proposal",
Perspectives on Science (forthcoming) 1-14 [link] -
M. Ehberger,
"How to study virtual entities historically? A proposal",
Perspectives on Science (forthcoming) 1-33 [link] -
R. Harlander and J.-P. Martinez,
"The development of computational methods for Feynman diagrams",
The European Physical Journal H 49 (2024) 1 [link] -
R. Harlander, J.-P. Martinez, G. Schiemann,
"The End of the Particle Era?",
The European Physical Journal H 48 (2023) 6 [link] -
J.-P. Martinez,
"Virtuality in Modern Physics in the 1920s and 1930s: Meaning(s) of an Emerging Notion",
Perspectives on Science (2023) [link] -
A. Wüthrich,
"Characterizing a Collaboration by Its Communication Structure",
Synthese 202 (2023) 160 [link] -
M. Ehberger,
"The language of Dirac's theory of radiation: The inception and initial reception of a tool for the quantum field theorist",
Archive for the History of Exact Sciences 76 (2022) 531-571 [link] -
R. Harlander,
"Feynman diagrams – from complexity to simplicity and back",
Synthese 199 (2021) 15078 [link] -
M. Ehberger,
"I'm not there. Or: Was the virtual particle ever born?",
In: C. Forstner, M. Walker (eds), "Biographies in the History of Physics". Springer, Cham (2020) 261-280 [link] -
A. Wüthrich,
"The Exigencies of War and the Stink of a Theoretical Problem – Understanding the Genesis of Feynman's Quantum Electrodynamics as Mechanistic Modelling at Different Levels",
Perspectives on Science 26 (2018) 501-520 [link] -
A. Wüthrich,
"Discovering and ‘Rediscovering’ the W Boson",
Annalen Der Physik 529 (2017) 1700101 [link]
Theses
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M. Ehberger, PhD thesis
"From virtual oscillators to virtual transitions to virtual particles: Practices and representations in the formation of the virtual particle concept",
TU Berlin (submitted 2023) -
M. Zichert, Master thesis
"Eine digitale Begriffsgeschichte des virtuellen Teilchens",
Universität Leipzig (2023) -
K. Weingarten, Bachelor thesis
"The Reality of Virtual Particles and the Question of Energy Conservation",
RWTH Aachen Universtity (2021)
Awards
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J.-P. Martinez,
"IUPAP Early Career Prize in History of Physics" (2023) [link] -
A. Wüthrich,
"ERC Consolidator Grant: Network epistemology in practice (NEPI)" (2022) [link]
Other publications
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J.-P. Martinez,
"Could It Be the End of the Particle Era? Rethinking Discoveries in High Energy Physics",
Blog post, Springer Nature Research Communities (2023) [link] -
F. Boge and A. Wüthrich,
"Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Particle Physics",
CERN Courier 59 (2019) 18-19 [link]
Invited talks
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J.-P. Martinez,
"Complexity in the History of Science",
IUPAP Early Career Prize for the History of Physics Award Ceremony,
Copenhagen (2023) -
J.-P. Martinez,
"Exploring virtuality: Lessons from the history of modern physics",
I2SoS Kolloquium,
Bielefeld University (2023) -
R. Harlander,
"The evolution of the particle concept",
Resummation, Evolution, Factorization 2022,
online (2022) -
R. Harlander,
"Complexity and Simplicity in Theoretical Particle Physics",
International Conference on Simplicities and Complexities,
Bonn (2019) -
A. Wüthrich,
"Putting Feynman's style into context",
Richard Feynman's centennial celebration,
University of Geneva (2018) -
A. Wüthrich,
"Interpreting Feynman Diagrams as Visual Models",
Visual Reasoning – Visual Arguments. International Symposium,
Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg, Greifswald (2017)
Organization of project-related events
- Symposium
Histories of Large Experiments and Their Methodological Challenges, International Conference on Large-Scale Experiments - Reflecting on Theories and Practices, Karlsruhe (2022) [link] - Workshop
Virtual entities in science: a virtual workshop, online (2021) [link]
Contributed talks
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J.-P. Martinez, R. Harlander,
"The emergence of algebraic programs for the calculation of Feynman diagrams in high energy physics",
7th International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing,
Warsaw (2023) -
J.-P. Martinez,
"The strange concept that almost nobody seemed to be concerned about: virtual particles in the early post-war period",
Fifth Biennial Early-Career Conference for Historians of the Physical Sciences,
Copenhagen (2023) -
J.-P. Martinez,
"Feynman diagrams and meson theory: I love you... me neither (in French)",
XIVth Congress of the French Society for the History of Science and Techniques,
Bordeaux (2023) -
J.-P. Martinez,
"At the crossroads of comic ray and nuclear physics: conceptual developments in particle physics in the 1930s and 1940s",
History, Philosophy and Sociology of Cosmology & Astroparticle Physics Conference,
Bonn (2022) -
R. Harlander,
"The future of particle discoveries",
International conference on large scale experiments,
online (2022) [link] -
J.-P. Martinez, K. Weingarten,
"What can history of physics teach us about current perceptions of the concept of virtual particles?",
International Conference on Large-Scale Experiments - Reflecting on Theories and Practices,
Karlsruhe (2022) -
J.-P. Martinez,
"The remodeling of theoretical physics across World War II seen through the emerging concept of virtual particle",
The 10th Conference of the European Society of the History of Science (ESHS),
Brussels (2022) -
J.-P. Martinez,
"Effective or/and Possible? Historical Considerations on the Notion of Virtuality in Modern Physics",
History of Science Society Annual Meeting,
, Chicago (2022) -
J.-P. Martinez,
"Virtual Particles: From Hideki Yukawa to Richard Feynman",
26th International Congress of History of Science and Technology,
online (2021) -
J.-P. Martinez,
"Virtuality in nuclear physics (1930s-1940s): the many meanings of an emerging concept",
Virtual entities in science: a virtual workshop,
online (2021) -
M. Ehberger,
"An inventory of the virtual: Notions of virtuality in quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics before renormalization",
Fourth Biennial Early-Career Conference for Historians of the Physical Sciences,
San Sebastian (2018) -
D. Mitchell,
"On the Social Epistemology of the Historical Development of Ambiguous Concepts in Physics",
25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology,
Rio de Janeiro (2017) -
F. Steinle,
"Towards a historical analysis of concept dynamics",
25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology,
Rio de Janeiro (2017) -
M. Ehberger and A. Wüthrich,
"Epistemic Challenges in Early Quantum Electrodynamics and the Concept of the Virtual Particle",
25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology,
Rio de Janeiro (2017) -
A. Wüthrich,
"Von Erfordernissen des Kriegs und vom Gestank theoretischer Probleme: Weshalb gab Richard Feynman das Modell der Zitterbewegung des Elektrons auf?",
Frühjahrstagung der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft,
Dresden (2017)