Chapter 170: Good Luck!

Brother Yan is indeed right. After the experiment officially started, the emitted particle beam is basically stable below 5GeV. The signals captured by the ATLAS detector are basically concentrated in the energy range of 1-10GeV.

Occasionally there are one or two special cases outside the upper limit of the 10GeV energy region, but they don't deviate too far.

In such a case, naturally, no data of 750GeV will be generated.

But such a result could not convince Lu Zhou, who firmly believed that there must be something in the 750GeV energy zone.

The experiment lasted a full day.

At about twelve o'clock in the morning, cheers erupted in the CERN headquarters tens of kilometers away.

Judging from the data fed back by various detectors, the confidence level of the pentaquark state particles captured in the eyes has exceeded 5sigma, and all the evidence shows that the pentaquark state particles have been discovered!

Although everyone has expected this, those speculative things are far more exciting than when this moment actually happens.

Generally speaking, the quarks that are torn apart in the collider either form "quark-antiquark" pairs similar to kaons and π mesons, or form "three-quark states" such as protons and neutrons. As for the single quark state, since quarks are bound by the strong force of color charge, the single quark state particles are not allowed to exist.

However, quantum chromodynamics does not prohibit the existence of such exotic states as "tetraquark state" and "pentaquark state".

Over the years, major high-energy physics laboratories have been searching for these "singular states" on various colliders.

If these little mavericks don't come to light, it could prove that our Standard Model might be flawed, and quantum chromodynamics might not be right.

However, once these strange states are discovered, it will be a great boost to the confidence of the entire theoretical physics community!

According to CERN's consistent urgency, almost the second day after the end of the experiment, they couldn't wait to send invitations to the reporters waiting in Geneva, and held a press conference with a very high standard.

Standing in front of the media reporters, CERN's spokesperson announced the news in an excited tone.

"...We have successfully discovered the pentaquark state particle, which is another great victory for the Standard Model! We are once again convinced that the path we have chosen is correct!"

Not surprisingly, the discovery of the pentaquark particle will become the most significant research achievement in physics this year, overshadowing all other research achievements.

Amid applause, CERN's press conference came to an end, followed by a large number of media covering the discovery.

For the physicists gathered here, though, the real work has just begun.

In order to better reveal the physical properties of the pentaquark state particles, the LHCb International Cooperation Group has assigned tasks to researchers from various countries to conduct a full-spectrum analysis of the newly discovered particles.

After the task was assigned, the research team at Academician Lu's side also devoted themselves to this work.

However, compared to the previous "joint inspection" with Syracuse University on the data of the B1 division, this time the task is not so tight in terms of schedule, and it can even be said to be quite loose.

Later, Lu Zhou asked Senior Brother Yan to find out that this thing is different from the previous paper. Every paper on "full-spectrum analysis" this time will be signed by all researchers.

There are too many co-authors, and the gold content of the paper is infinitely weakened. In addition, everyone is doing his own thing, and there is no project collision, and there is no need to compare with anyone. Naturally, no one is so anxious. Based on the workload assigned to each team, one month is more than enough time to get everything done.

Sitting in the conference room of the hotel, while typing a draft on A4 paper, Lu Zhou said in a chatty tone to Senior Brother Yan who was also sitting next to him and working hard.

"Thousands of signatures... When I think that more than a thousand names will be hung on the thesis I am about to complete, and even more than half of the names will be ranked in front of me, my enthusiasm for this job will not be reduced. One and a half."

"Working for CERN is like this. This is such a place that will be successful forever, so I don't recommend you to come here. Although our work is equally great, the Nobel Prize cannot be awarded to everyone who has witnessed history. People..." Senior Brother Yan yawned, put down his pen and stretched, "Going to play billiards at night?"

Lu Zhou thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "No, I have something to do with Professor Greer, and I'm going to the office on the R2 floor later."

When he visited the site last time, Professor Greer promised him that after the experiment was over, he would take the time to help him sort out the data collected during the channel test.

Just now, he received an email from Greer, saying that the data had been sorted out, and asked him to take the USB drive to the office.

Although it won't take long to copy the data, Lu Zhou plans to use his leisure time at night to study this data carefully.

After all, he was busy with Academician Lu's project during the day, and only weekends and evenings could be used.

Senior Brother Yan saw through Lu Zhou's thoughts at a glance: "Don't tell me it was the last time."

Lu Zhou: "You guessed it."

Senior Brother Yan looked defeated, sighed and said, "Well, I admire your persistence... although what I want to say is that you are doing useless work."

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Is it useless, how do you know if you don't try it?"

There's no way, that's what other people are doing, it's the same when they're doing mathematics, and it's the same when they're doing physics.

He is still interested in the characteristic peak at 750GeV until now.

Although Senior Brother Yan and Professor Greer both said that the flat protrusion cannot be called a characteristic peak, it is very likely that it is just a two-photon signal, and even a collision may not necessarily occur. Because the energy it carries is too exaggerated, even five times that of the Higgs particle!

However, Lu Zhou didn't think so.

The figure of 750GeV may indeed seem "heavy", but it does not mean that there is no possibility in it.

To delve into the frontiers of any discipline requires imagination, and the protrusion of this suspected characteristic peak, in Lu Zhou's view, already has room for imagination.

Even in the opinion of two experts who focus on quantum chromodynamics, this phenomenon is contrary to "common sense" and has no research value. But the common sense of physics is not applicable to researchers like Lu Zhou who are born in mathematics.

How did quantum chromodynamics develop?

Isn't it just by subverting "common sense"?

It doesn't matter if you're wrong, it's an attempt without the cost of failure.

After dinner, Lu Zhou went to the R2 building on the way, and Professor Greer happened to be waiting for him in the office.

"All the data you want is in this USB flash drive, including the data collected on the CMS detector. I also asked for a copy for you. But to be honest, this data is useless at all. We only do it for collisions in the 1TeV energy region After less than an hour, apart from testing the sensitivity of each detector, this thing can't get any useful experimental results at all."

Lu Zhou: "Thank you... I just want to satisfy my curiosity, whether it is useful or not, I want to try to study it."

"Curiosity?" Professor Greer smiled and gave him an encouraging look, "Then I wish you good luck."

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