标题： 科学实验价值的定量度量 显示英文标题

标题： A Quantitative Measure of Experimental Scientific Merit

摘要： 我们领域的实验项目评审可能从一个更量化的框架中受益，这个框架可以定量地讨论研究计划的科学价值，并评估特定实验结果的科学价值。 本文明确提出了这样一个量化框架。 使用此框架评估能量前沿某些研究途径的科学价值的例子，在许多情况下提供了与传统智慧截然不同的结果。 这里提出的实验科学价值指标有可能为本领域以及物理科学其他子领域的未来研究方向选择提供参考信息。 显示英文摘要

摘要： Experimental program review in our field may benefit from a more quantitative framework within which to quantitatively discuss the scientific merit of a proposed program of research, and to assess the scientific merit of a particular experimental result. This article proposes explicitly such a quantitative framework. Examples of the use of this framework in assessing the scientific merit of particular avenues of research at the energy frontier in many cases provide results in stark contradiction to accepted wisdom. The experimental scientific figure of merit proposed here has the potential for informing future choices of research direction in our field, and in other subfields of the physical sciences.