Inductive Risk Meets Engineering Risk: Error Management and Pursuitworthiness in Collider Physics

In this paper, we present technical review practices in High-Energy Physics (HEP) as a collaborative mechanism for managing epistemic risks in the design and upgrade of large-scale detectors. Building on the concept of phronetic risk, which encompasses the epistemic consequences of practical decisions in science-engineering contexts, and drawing on empirical research conducted at the ATLAS collaboration at CERN, we show that technical review facilitates collective deliberation over non-epistemic values, thereby shaping which experimental directions are deemed pursuitworthy. Our analysis highlights an organizational approach to risk management in scientific practice, challenging the predominant focus on individual decision-making in the philosophical literature on values in science.