Chapter 1140 "Pendulum" Model

The controversy about the 750GeV characteristic peak and the news of Brookhaven National Laboratory's resignation caused a stir internationally. However, Lu Zhou seemed to have not seen it, and he was still completing his daily work step by step, commanding the collider. run.

There is no nuclear fusion on the moon, and there is no way to get nuclear fusion up for the time being. With the heat generated by the Pangu Heap, it can heat the local temperature of the nearby waters by 1 to 2 degrees. It is necessary to replace the heat exhaust port from time to time to prevent excessive heat accumulation. The same If the device is moved to the moon, where there are no lakes and no atmospheric environment, something may happen within a few minutes.

What's more, there is not such a large demand for electricity on the moon. Although the collider consumes electricity, it is impossible to run it all the time. The current mode of operation of the collider is powered by solar energy, and the electrical energy is stored in the form of chemical energy. It takes about three minutes to charge the electrical energy for three days.

However, this mode also faces a problem. The cycle of the moon is about 27.3 days, half of which is night, and there are only about 13 days during the day. It can fully charge the battery array 4 times.

In other words, there are actually only 4 experimental opportunities in a month, and each experimental opportunity is extremely critical.

IMCRC headquarters.

Sending the latest experimental data to Lu Zhou, Luo Wenxuan said.

"It will be the dark night period soon, and we can do the last experiment this month."

After taking the document and looking at it, Lu Zhou frowned slightly.

Suddenly, he sighed softly, and put the document in his hand on the table.

"It would be great if we could run a few more sets of data, and our chances of winning would be much higher."

Luo Wenxuan: "There is a way... During my last meeting, someone suggested that a set of solar power arrays and power storage facilities could be built next to the collider, and the space could be exchanged for time, which would probably be able to reduce the monthly experimental The frequency is doubled by 1.5~2 times."

Lu Zhou: "What about the budget?"

Luo Wenxuan said with some embarrassment: "A conservative estimate is 1 billion US dollars."

$1 billion...

Hearing this number, Lu Zhou couldn't help but smashed his tongue.

Even if he wanted to spend so much money at once, it might be difficult.

The annual fixed budget of IMCRC is about 2 billion to 3 billion US dollars, which is shared by all countries. Compared with CERN's fixed budget of just over US$1 billion, IMCRC's economy is still relatively ample, and it is not impossible to get money if it really wants to.

But spending nearly half of the budget at the beginning of the year was simply too risky.

After all, for such a huge research institution as IMCRC, it is not enough to just feed the collider, there are too many places where money is needed.

What's more, the addition of solar arrays will mean that the maintenance cost will also double. It sounds tempting to increase the number of experiments in a single month, but in the end it is a temporary solution, not a permanent cure.

Originally, the 750GeV scheme he proposed was already risky enough.

The index finger tapped lightly on the table, and after thinking for a long time, Lu Zhou shook his head and said.

"It doesn't make much sense. The collider pipeline needs to be maintained after each experiment. Increasing the frequency of use will increase the maintenance cost of the entire device..."

Even, the service life of the device will be overdrawn.

The radiation damage of high-energy particle rays to materials is permanent. The higher the energy level of the collision experiment, the greater the impact and the higher the maintenance cost.

This is not only a problem faced by the Lunar Hadron Collider, but also high-energy collision experiments all over the world are facing the same problem.

"The problem still lies in the money. Once the collider is turned on, no amount of money will be enough to burn it," Luo Wenxuan sighed, and said with emotion, "It would be great if I could make money from the moon."

Hearing this sentence, Lu Zhou smiled and shook his head.

Make money from the moon?

He wasn't the only one who thought this way, including senior sister, many people had this idea.

But obviously, with the current level of development of the moon, it has not yet reached the level where it can achieve profitability. At least until his "Earth and Moon Control" mission chain is completed, it is too difficult to achieve this.

Lu Zhou: "Don't worry about money. What's more, the problem we're encountering now can't be solved just by having money. By the way, it will be the New Year in a few days. When the last experiment is over, everyone Just go back and celebrate the new year, and come back to continue after the new year is over."

Luo Wenxuan made a helpless expression.

"It can only be the."

...

The last experiment in January 2023 ended in a "spark" that was fired 360,000 kilometers away.

With the beginning of the long dark night, the collider has also entered the maintenance cycle, and began to prepare for the experiment next month.

Although the experiment is over, Lu Zhou has not been idle because of this.

These days, he basically either listens to the reports of various research groups at the IMCRC headquarters, listens to the reports sent by the representatives of each group on the data analysis of the previous month, or meets with other experts from the IMCRC headquarters to discuss the last month's data analysis. The experimental data collected in the month, and formulate the next experimental plan.

The huge amount of data determines that it is impossible for him to carefully screen every segment of data, and he can only rely on his intuition in mathematics and physics to check as much as possible in every link .

I remember that seven years ago, when everyone was making a summary report on the experimental data for two weeks, his position should be on the stage of the lecture hall.

But now, his work has risen from partial to overall, and his identity has changed from an ordinary scientific research dog to an academic leader leading the future process of global physics.

Thinking about it now, it's really emotional.

Still, now is clearly not the time to look back on a lifetime.

The mountain of work made Lu Zhou want to split himself in half, one on the other side of the conference room, and one in the chairman's office.

eleven o'clock in the morning.

In the conference room.

Lu Zhou frowned after flipping through the sorted out experimental data repeatedly.

The results of the last experiment are still not very satisfactory. Judging from the data fed back from several sets of detectors, although the characteristic peak of 750Gev has appeared, the confidence level is still hovering below 3sigema.

After looking at the Dalitz diagram several times, looking at the series of green dots hovering below 125Gev, Lu Zhou suddenly said.

"It's not completely fruitless, at least the data we collected in the low-energy region, our results are consistent with the results of CERN. At the same time, the characteristic peak of 750GeV does appear weak, and the experimental evidence tells us that the characteristic peak It’s not a coincidence.”

Everyone at the conference table looked at each other in blank dismay.

Compared with valuable clues, this sentence sounds more like a consolation of "this wave is not a loss".

After pondering for a long time, Wei Teng spoke.

"Then what do you think it will be?"

"It's just a conjecture," Lu Zhou continued after a pause, "the matter that makes up the elementary particles, there is something that we can't directly observe or understand. For example... look at the wall clock on the wall. "

Following Lu Zhou's line of sight, everyone turned their attention to the softly ringing wall clock.

After a pause, Lu Zhou continued.

"...just like its pendulum, when the pendulum moves to the sides, because it is blocked by something so we can't see it, only when it appears in the center can we use the traditional method observe it directly."

Wei Teng touched his chin with interest.

"It's an interesting metaphor... Do you mean that it is possible that the treasure we are looking for will only appear at a certain time?"

Lu Zhou replied in an ambiguous tone: "It's not...but it's possible, it can only be observed by us at a certain time."

Professor Frank Wilczek asked with a frown as he turned his pen.

"How do you plan to test this conclusion?"

It can only be observed under certain conditions. This ambiguous conclusion does not solve any problems. What they are now discussing is the method of observation, rather than looking for reasons for not being able to observe.

Lu Zhou shrugged: "There is no conclusion that can be verified from the very beginning, including your 'time crystal'...Of course, I will design experiments to find a way to solve this problem, and try to get it in next month's Fixing it before the experiment starts, at least gives our collider something to do."

Wei Teng hesitated for a while and asked: "It will be the Chinese New Year soon, is it okay?"

"Small things, don't worry about me," Lu Zhou tapped the conference table with a pen cap, looked around the conference table, and continued, "Let's hold this meeting here for now, and the meeting will be over."

The meeting is over.

Lu Zhou, who left the meeting room, went straight back to the chairman's office.

Instructing the secretary to bring him a sandwich and a cup of coffee, Lu Zhou took out the notes he made at the meeting earlier from his bag, held them in his hand and read them over and over again.

"Where is the problem..."

After thinking hard, Lu Zhou already had a clue in his mind, and his intuition told him that this clue pointed to the result he dreamed of.

However, the clue was so vague that he didn't get an answer after thinking for a long time.

At this moment, a string of bubbles suddenly appeared in the lower right corner of the laptop, interrupting his thoughts.

Xiao Ai: 【Master! good news! (▽)ノ】

Looking up at the computer, Lu Zhou asked, "...what good news?"

Xiao Ai: [Master's experiment has results! ()】

experiment?

Lu Zhou froze for a moment, and quickly reacted.

What Xiaoai was talking about should not be a physical experiment.

but another one.

Experiments on Void Memory...