Chapter 168 Unexpected Discovery

"...Actually, this matter is not over yet. Later, NATO heard about it from nowhere, and even ran over to ask the people at CERN if it was true. Guess how the people at CERN responded?"

"How did you reply?"

Brother Yan imitated Evans' tone, jokingly said: "Of course it is true, but the premise is that you have to build a hadron collider the size of Saturn, and then build a reactor the size of the moon to convert the helium on the surface of the moon Throw the whole thing into the reactor. If these conditions are met, it may be possible to produce a black hole as understood by ordinary people? So, let’s pay for it first.”

Lu Zhou laughed.

Although Senior Brother Yan didn't continue talking, he could guess that NATO definitely didn't pay in the end.

Building a collider as big as Saturn may only be used to threaten aliens.

Soon, the car arrived at the gate of the research center in the North District.

After parking the car in the garage, Senior Brother Yan took Lu Zhou to the main entrance of the research center.

...

In order to facilitate the understanding of laymen, simply speaking, a hadron collider can be abstracted into two parts. One is two small water pipes wrapped in beryllium metal, and the other is various detectors buried in a large pipe outside the two small water pipes.

Two almost parallel orbits intersect in a flat "X" shape at a certain point, and accelerate in different directions, and the two particle beams "collide" at this intersection point.

There are about four such "reaction points", and around such reaction points are connected various detectors to collect the physical phenomena generated at the moment of particle beam collision.

Of course, it is not such a coincidence that all particles can collide, and the particles that collide may not all destroy the strong interaction force within themselves so coincidentally.

Therefore, the principle of the entire collider is to squeeze as many particles as possible into the limited pipeline, and to accumulate collision cases with low probability in the long data accumulation.

This is how the Higgs particle that shocked the physics world was discovered.

The research center that Senior Brother Yan took Lu Zhou to visit is responsible for observing and collecting collision data. There are also many laboratories in this research center, which are responsible for data collection of different detectors.

Walking into one of the laboratories, I saw a man with a beard and a white coat sitting in front of a computer in the laboratory drinking coffee.

Senior Brother Yan went up to greet him and introduced him to Lu Zhou.

"This is Professor Greer, you can see his name in many papers published by CERN, and he has been working here since the first time I came here as an intern."

"Please don't describe me as old, I was only transferred to work here since 2008," Professor Greer smiled friendly, and held out his hand to Lu Zhou, "Nice to meet you, Mr. Lu. "

"Hello, hello." Lu Zhou smiled and shook hands with him.

Originally, he thought that Mr. Greer, whom Senior Brother Yan often mentioned, would have to be the same age as Academician Lu, but he didn't expect that he looked unexpectedly young, only in his forties.

Released his hand, Professor Greer said: "It's a pity that I can't show you around here, the experiment is about to start, I have to stare at these computers, if you come here half a month earlier, I can take you to the following Look, but now several entrances are blocked, and there is no way to get in without a certificate."

Lu Zhou smiled and replied, "How could it be a pity, we are now standing on the special seat of history."

"Haha, you must have such an idea because you just came to CERN," Greer said with a smile, "there are thousands of people sitting in the special seats here. The signatures of each paper are thousands of people, and they are still sorted alphabetically. When you become a researcher here, you will experience this feeling."

The article is signed by 1,000 people, and it is still sorted alphabetically...

emmm...

If you think about it that way, working here is pretty boring.

At this moment, Lu Zhou suddenly noticed that the images on the computer screen were moving, and asked, "Has the experiment started yet?"

Professor Greer said with a smile: "Not yet, it is only in the trial operation stage. We must ensure that the channel is unblocked and the most critical detectors are operating normally. Therefore, before officially looking for pentaquarks, we will first conduct a few trial runs. Circle. What you're looking at now is the pair of photons captured on ATLAS, and some gibberish."

Looking at the image on the computer screen, Lu Zhou frowned slightly.

With his sensitivity to numbers, looking at the data on the image, he always felt a sense of inexplicable déjà vu.

But for a while, he couldn't remember where he had seen it.

Unable to hold back the curiosity in his heart, Lu Zhou asked.

"Why do I feel that this picture looks familiar?"

"Because what we are doing is the data of the B1 division, and the data of this division is collected by our Professor Greer. If you sort out these data, you will find it more familiar." Hearing Lu Zhou's question, Senior Brother Yan said with a smile.

"Oh, speaking of this, I heard that you made that old fellow Brunos stumble?" Professor Greer suddenly smirked.

"What does it mean to stumble, we are all contributing to a great cause," Senior Brother Yan mocked, imitating Academician Lu's tone.

Greer laughed and said: "Hahaha, no wonder I saw that his face was not quite right when I went back to the headquarters last time. It really is this matter."

It seems that Professor Brunos is not very popular, not only has a little bit of trouble with Academician Lu, but also doesn't seem to deal with this man very much.

The two stood and bragged for a while, and the topic quickly returned to this experiment from the unlucky Professor Brunos.

When he learned that Lu Zhou was very interested in this laboratory, Professor Greer excitedly patted the computer in front of him and introduced it vividly.

"CERN not only has the world's largest hadron collider, but also the world's most advanced computer system LCG, through which we can help hundreds of thousands of computers and hundreds of laboratories scattered all over the world to simultaneously process Experimental data and finally summarized... This computer is one of them, mainly responsible for collecting the data of the ATLAS detector..."

"...through this computer, you can even see the trajectory of colliding protons in a compact muon solenoid...Of course, this is a model based on feedback data, and there must be a lot of real situations Difference, but not too much."

At the end, Professor Greer seriously added.

"If you are interested in high-energy physics, you can come to me. I just need an assistant who is good at mathematics. For you personally, an experience working at CERN will also become your..."

Hearing this, Senior Brother Yan interjected next to him: "Don't listen to him, even if you have worked here for more than ten years and published hundreds of papers, you still can't get a single first author. Papers, no one in China will recognize your scientific research experience.”

Being exposed face to face, Professor Greer clicked his tongue and gave Yan Xinjue a dissatisfied look.

Shrugging his shoulders nonchalantly, Senior Brother Yan grinned and said, "Don't blame me for exposing you, I can't just watch you fool my senior brother."

Professor Greer stubbornly corrected: "How can you call it a fool? This is a friendly suggestion!"

It can be seen that the relationship between the two seems to be very good.

I don't know if it's because Senior Brother Yan was tricked...

At the back, the conversation between the two turned into aimless chat, and Lu Zhou didn't listen carefully.

Because his sight has been attracted by the continuously accumulating data on the screen.

Suddenly, when he saw the data of a certain energy area on the map, Lu Zhou frowned slightly, and couldn't help but let out a light sigh.

Noticing Lu Zhou's situation, Senior Brother Yan glanced at him and asked casually.

"What's wrong?"

Lu Zhou pointed to the computer screen.

"Have you noticed that the data in this energy zone is a bit... strange?"