The Evidence for the Top Quark: Objectivity and Bias in Collaborative Experimentation

Introduction 1. Origins of the third generation of matter 2. Building a detector and a collaboration to run it 3. Doing physics: CDF closes in on the top 4. Writing up the evidence: The evolution of a result 5. Run Ib: 'Observation' of the top quark, and second thoughts and 'evidence' 6. A model of the experiment: Error statistical evidence and the top quark 7. Bias, uncertainty, and evidence Epilogue.