Large-scale collaborative projects between experimental high-energy physicists have produced sociological problems that will need thought to resolve.
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Pickering, A., Trower, W. Sociological problems of high-energy physics. Nature 318, 243–245 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1038/318243a0
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