Ethnography And Theory Of The Signature In Physics

Ending the decades-long search for the elusive Higgs particle, physicists at the Conseil Europe´en pour la Recherche Nucle´aire, or CERN, in Switzerland announced the news of its historic discovery on July 4, 2012. In the wake of the recent discovery of the Higgs particle, the article aims to give a critical account of the concept of signature used in contemporary particle physics. Appearing …