First joint ATLAS and CMS paper sets record with 5154 authors
MAY 18, 2015
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.028884
Nature : A 33-page paper published on 14 May in Physical Review Letters has only 9 pages of text about the experiment and data; the remaining pages list the 5154 contributors to the project. It is the first joint paper by the ATLAS and CMS teams at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. The two teams decided to publish together because their combined data narrowed the mass of the Higgs boson to within ±0.25%. Both teams have been listing all the scientists involved because they believe there is no fair way to split credit for the project. A CMS paper from 2008 was the first to surpass 3000 authors.
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