Measuring Nothing, Repeatedly: Null Experiments in Physics

PRELIMS.pdf
	Acknowledgments
	Author biographies
		Allan Franklin
		Ronald Laymon
CH001.pdf
	Chapter 1 Introduction
		References
CH002.pdf
	Chapter 2 Galileo and free fall
		References
CH003.pdf
	Chapter 3 Newton’s pendulum experiment and replications by Bessel and Potter
		3.1 Newton’s pendulum experiment
		3.2 The experiments of Bessel and of Potter
		References
CH004.pdf
	Chapter 4 The Eötvös torsional pendulum
		References
CH005.pdf
	Chapter 5 The Fifth Force and Eötvös redux
		5.1 The rise of the Fifth Force
		5.2 Its fall
		5.3 Tests of the weak equivalence principle
		References
CH006.pdf
	Chapter 6 Do falling bodies move south?
		References
CH007.pdf
	Chapter 7 The Michelson–Morley experiments of 1881 and 1887
		7.1 The experiments
		7.2 Reaction to the Michelson–Morley null result
		7.3 Early replications by Morley and Dayton Miller
		7.4 Einstein and beyond
		7.5 Replications by Kennedy, Illingworth, Joos and others
		References
CH008.pdf
	Chapter 8 Dayton Miller and the ‘cosmic’ solution
		8.1 Miller’s (1933) paper
		8.2 Shankland’s 1955 reanalysis of Dayton Miller’s data
		8.3 Roberts’ 2006 analysis of Dayton Miller’s data
		References
CH009.pdf
	Chapter 9 Physics beyond the standard model
		9.1 Search for SUSY in multijet events with missing transverse momentum in proton–proton collisions at 13 TeV (Sirunyan et al 2017)
		9.2 Search for top squarks and dark matter particles in opposite-charge dilepton final states at √s = 13 TeV (Sirunyan et al 2018)
		9.3 Discussion
		References
CH010.pdf
	Chapter 10 Neutrinoless double beta decay
		10.1 The problem
		10.2 The early experiments
		10.3 The critics
		10.4 The second generation experiments
		10.5 Discussion
		References
CH011.pdf
	Chapter 11 Conclusion
		11.1 How do we know it is null result?
			11.1.1 The appraisal of systematic and statistical uncertainty
			11.1.2 Sensitivity, calibration and surrogate signals
			11.1.3 Idealization and approximation
			11.1.4 Sensitivity with respect to data analysis
		11.2 The roles of theory
			11.2.1 Theories of the phenomena
			11.2.2 Theories of the apparatus
		11.3 Replication in physics and the social sciences
		References