Chapter 173 CERN

At the end of the month, CERN was held as scheduled, and the place was in the largest ladder meeting room in the R1 building.

Arriving early, Academician Lu glanced at his watch, then looked at Yan Xinjue who was sitting next to him, and asked, "Where's your brother?"

Yan Xinjue also looked puzzled, shook his head and said, "I didn't see him."

I ran to knock on the door early in the morning, but no one opened the door, and I don't know if I didn't wake up or went somewhere.

The meeting is about to start. Although this kind of meeting is not like the lectures in the school, you need to sign in to count the credits, but this kind of high-level meeting will have many bigwigs coming to the stage to report the results. Missing it is undoubtedly worse than losing a few credits. The loss is much greater.

Sitting next to him was Academician Gao Yuanping of Shuimu University. Seeing that there was an empty seat next to Academician Lu, he laughed and joked: "Old Lu, I listen to you bragging about your apprentice every day, why didn't I see you bring him here?"

Academician Lu shook his head: "Who knows what that kid is doing all day long, just leave him alone."

Soon, the lecture hall fell silent, and Lynn Evans, head of CERN, stepped onto the podium directly in front of him and read the opening remarks of the meeting.

"Thanks to the contributions of the cooperative groups from various research institutes and laboratories around the world to this experiment, after years of unremitting exploration, we finally discovered the pentaquark particle Pc+. After 12 years of experiments, the building of the Standard Model Teetering, we find that our vaunted theory doesn't explain everything, but luckily, it's right this time, and the Standard Model predicts its existence once again..."

"...The various physical properties of Pc+ particles have been completed by the LHCb international research cooperation group. I will not talk about redundant nonsense. Let the leaders of each cooperation group come to the stage to report."

There was applause in the venue, Evans nodded slightly, and then gave the microphone to the leader of the LHCb International Research Cooperation Group who had been waiting for a long time.

Academician Gao who was sitting under the stage slowly got up, nodded to Academician Lu who was sitting next to him, walked through the aisle to the backstage of the meeting room.

As the leader of the Huaguo research group, he will speak on stage on behalf of the researchers from Huaguo and report on the work of the full-spectrum analysis.

Walking to the backstage of the conference room, just when Academician Gao was about to find someone to ask when to enter, he suddenly found a somewhat familiar face in the conference room.

The other party obviously saw him too, smiled at him friendlyly, stood up and greeted him proactively.

"Hello, Academician Gao!"

"Hi, may I ask if you are..."

"My name is Lu Zhou!"

Walking up to say hello to Academician Gao, Lu Zhou grinned.

Although his heart was full of tension, he controlled his emotions well, at least he didn't show this tension on his face.

No way, this is completely different from the academic conference in Princeton. Almost half of the bigwigs in the field of theoretical physics are sitting here. Several domestic academicians engaged in theoretical physics research have come, not to mention those who have won the Nobel Prize. boss.

No matter in level or specification, this kind of international report conference is not comparable to an academic conference of communication nature.

What's more, the state at this moment is different from that at that time.

"Lu Zhou... are you a master under the leadership of Academician Lu Shenjian?" Gao Yuanping's face showed a hint of bewilderment, but soon followed by surprise, "Why did you come here?"

Lu Zhou smiled, sighed and said, "...that's a long story."

However, just when he was about to explain the matter in detail, a staff member of CERN suddenly opened the door and walked in.

"Excuse me, is Academician Gao Yuanping here?"

"It's me." Academician Gao nodded.

The staff member said respectfully: "It's your turn to give a report soon, please come with me... I wonder if it's convenient for you now?"

"...Of course, take me there."

Nodding to the staff member, Academician Gao finally gave Lu Zhou a strange look, but said nothing, and followed the staff member away.

...

Standing on the podium, Academician Gao routinely reported the work of the Huaguo Cooperation Group on the full-spectrum analysis, and answered questions from several questioners.

When he returned to the backstage lounge, he was about to chat with that interesting master student, only to find that he had disappeared.

"...It's strange."

Full of questions, Academician Gao left the lounge, returned to the venue, walked to his seat and sat down.

Glancing at the empty seat next to his old friend, Academician Gao whispered in a chatty tone.

"Guess who I ran into in the break room just now?"

Academician Lu gave him a suspicious look.

"Who did you touch?"

Academician Gao smiled and said, "Your student."

Academician Lu subconsciously glanced to the side, and found that Yan Xinjue was still sitting there, and then looked back with a strange expression.

"You mean... that kid Lu Zhou?"

"Yes." Academician Gao nodded.

Academician Lu asked in surprise, "Why did he go there?"

Academician Gao shook his head: "I also find it strange. I was just about to ask that kid what happened, but when I came back, he disappeared again."

Academician Lu raised his eyebrows slightly, feeling that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell where it was.

But soon, he put the matter aside.

Because, the meeting has entered the next link.

The report on the full-spectrum analysis results and various physical properties of "Pc+" particles has come to an end, and the report on various discoveries in the LHC experiment will follow.

Those who came to the stage were basically researchers who participated in the experiment, most of them came from CERN, as well as various research units and laboratories of LHC.

After all, when it comes to colliding experiments to explore a certain particle, not all the experimental data generated are all about the target particle. In the random collision of proton beams, some interesting new discoveries will always be produced.

Some of these new discoveries are useful, some are useless, and whether they are useful or not can only be determined after discussions among theoretical physicists.

It can even be said that compared with the previous part of the report on the completed research work, the second half of the meeting is the most interesting for all the researchers who participated in the project.

If a new discovery is confirmed to have great value, it may even change the established research plan of CERN and become the next experimental direction of Hadron Collider.

He took out a small notebook in his pocket, academician Lu put on his glasses, and was about to write something down.

However, at this moment, he suddenly froze.

He wasn't the only one who was stunned.

There are also Yan Xinjue sitting next to him, Academician Gao sitting on the other side of him, doctoral students from Shuimu University, and all researchers from the LHCb Huaguo Cooperation Group...

Because the person standing on the stage is not someone else.

It was his student—

Lu Zhou.

...

On the other side, Peter Higgs and Frank Wilczek, two Nobel laureates sitting together, were chatting about the content of the report just now.

"Do you think the recent discovery of the LHCb will lead to a Nobel Prize?"

Hearing the old friend's question, Peter Higgs thought for a while, shook his head and said, "There is no doubt that this is the most valuable research achievement of this year. The nomination for the Nobel Prize may be enough, but it may still be difficult to win the award." This year's medals should be awarded to neutrino oscillations, and next year's medals should be taken care of by those engaged in condensed matter physics. The medal owed to Solis by the Nobel Committee has been delayed for too long, and this time it should not be delayed any longer. Do you want to start a gamble?"

"Ahem, no," Frank coughed in embarrassment when he heard the game, "I quit recently, at least don't come to me this month."

"It's unbelievable, you actually quit. What happened?" Peter Higgs looked at his old friend in surprise. He doesn't often browse Twitter, and he doesn't know about the recent hot topic.

"It's nothing, just a little unpleasantness happened, let's not talk about it," Frank cleared his throat, and changed the subject, "Pay attention to the next report meeting, the main event will be the next one."

"Oh? Is there anything else worth looking forward to?" Peter Higgs asked casually.

"Of course, I'm sure you'll be shocked by that discovery," Frank grinned with a slightly smug expression, "I'll bet $100."