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Originally Posted by beppe
b) The paper Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam
has 73 authors, from 49 laboratories and from 11 countries: Russia, Switzerland, Italy, Korea, Francia, Turkey, Germany, Japan, Israel, Croatia, Belgium (in the order of quotation).
These large numbers give me the idea that it is a call for further fundings, in a moment when all the countries mentioned are going through severe cutting of expenses. It is not an uncommon gesture by the physicist community.
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Many of the CERN landmark papers have long lists of authors -- simply because many scientists are involved at different stages of the work. The
ATLAS paper was one of the most impressive ones in that respect.
Anyway, scientists always want more funding, and more publications, so surprises there, I'd think.