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This contribution examines particle accelerator research through a sociological lens. It combines a database of accelerator counts per country with a large corpus of accelerator-related publications from Web of Science to analyse how infrastructure distribution shapes scientific collaboration across regions and disciplines. The results reveal marked geographical asymmetries: some regions sustain dense internal publication networks while others participate primarily through cross-regional partnerships. The analysis also identifies clear disciplinary differences in how fields such as astronomy, materials science, and chemistry mobilise accelerator infrastructure through distinct collaboration configurations. Together, these patterns illustrate how scientific collaboration crystallises around shared infrastructures, how expertise circulates unevenly between regions, and how accelerators support the emergence of differentiated epistemic communities. The study offers an empirical perspective on the social dynamics underpinning global accelerator research and raises questions for future qualitative and longitudinal investigation.
| Paper status | Resubmitted proceeding files received and assigned to an editor. Accepted. |
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