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Packet I: Bonus 19

A period of operating one of these devices is called a “run,” over which many “fills” are performed. For 10 points each:
[10e] What devices include the RHIC (“rick”) at Brookhaven and the LHC at CERN?
ANSWER: particle accelerators [or particle colliders]
[10h] During a given run, particle physics researchers must request this resource to conduct their experiments. This resource is the first word in the title of a 1988 ethnography of particle physicists by Sharon Traweek.
ANSWER: beamtime [accept Beamtimes and Lifetimes; accept instrument time; prompt on time]
[10m] Sociologists of physics often treat access to beamtime as an “epistemic” form of this concept. Pierre Bourdieu divided this concept’s “cultural” form into “embodied,” “objectified,” and “institutionalized” forms.
ANSWER: capital [accept epistemic capital; accept cultural capital]
<GC, Other Academic> | Packet I - McGill B, UCLA A, Michigan B, Georgia Tech C, Southampton B

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
South Carolina ALiberty A100010E
VirginiaVirginia Tech B1001020EM
Virginia Tech ANorth Carolina A100010E

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CanadaMain Site✓110.00100%0%0%
FloridaMain Site✓120.00100%100%0%
Lower Mid-AtlanticMain Site✓313.33100%33%0%
MidwestMain Site✓420.00100%50%50%
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SoutheastMain Site✓412.50100%0%25%
UKMain Site✓215.00100%50%0%
Upper Mid-AtlanticMain Site✓514.00100%40%0%
Upstate NYMain Site✓215.00100%50%0%