Chapter 175

Reporting will continue.

However, compared to the previous explosive discovery, for everyone here, there is nothing to look forward to in the following content.

No way, this discovery is really amazing.

Many people thought of the neutrino oscillation experiments in the past few years, which proved that neutrinos, which should have no mass in the prediction of the standard model, actually have mass! Because of this startling discovery, the edifice of the Standard Model was nearly toppled.

If there really is a particle at 750GeV that is missing from the Standard Model...

In a sense, this thread really has such disruptive potential.

Many people are looking at their watches, and some people have even quietly left early, impatiently rushing to their own laboratories, preparing to start writing papers, "explaining" this new particle and new physical phenomenon, and then discovering Go to the arxiv website to occupy the pit.

It is foreseeable that if the probability of this characteristic peak is found to be so high, CERN will definitely start the Hadron Collider to conduct experiments to verify this clue.

If the data collected on the Hadron Collider finally proves that there is indeed a characteristic peak at the position of 750GeV, and finally this characteristic peak is proved to be a new particle, this not only means "new physics", but also Means a Nobel Prize!

There is no doubt that this clue already has the value of betting.

Slowly lowering his clapping hands, Peter Higgs said in an exclamation tone.

"...Unbelievable, this is the amazing discovery you told me about?"

"Yes," said Frank Wilczek, who was sitting next to him, with a smile, "I read his thesis two weeks ago. This hunch, this must be an amazing clue."

After thinking for a while, Peter Higgs said: "From a mathematical point of view, it is proved that there are characteristic peaks at 750GeV. Do you think this possibility exists?"

Frank smiled and said, "I think it's worth trying, whether it's correct or not, it's really an important clue."

"You're right, I think so too," Peter nodded, and slowly stood up from his seat, "I happen to have some new ideas about this clue...then I'll go back first."

Frank reached out and stopped his old friend: "Wait a minute."

Peter: "Anything else?"

Hehe smiled, Frank rubbed his thumbs: "You forgot to pay."

The two had made a bet earlier, and Frank bet that this new clue would definitely arouse his interest.

Looking at it now, the gambler clearly won.

Stunned for a moment, Peter cursed with a smile, threw a crumpled Franklin on the chair, turned around and hurried away.

...

On the other side of the venue, looking at Lu Zhou walking behind the scenes, Academician Lu laughed and said: "This kid is a bit interesting, he is indeed my apprentice."

Sitting next to him, Yan Xinjue couldn't help but ask, "But professor, didn't you say it was quantum fluctuations?"

"I didn't say that," Academician Lu retorted with a serious face, "I just said that there is such a possibility, and it is very likely."

Even now, he thinks so.

This is indeed an important clue, but whether this clue really means a major discovery remains to be tested experimentally.

Yan Xinjue continued to ask: "But if there is a characteristic peak at the position of 750GeV, how to explain this phenomenon from the perspective of quantum chromodynamics?"

Academician Lu shook his head: "It can't be explained, this phenomenon is beyond the standard model."

"Then why—"

"There is no reason," Academician Gao smiled and continued, "the reason for the existence of physics is not to make everything we see as we want, on the contrary, it exists Meaning, it is to find those things that are beyond our expectations, and then we will get new pieces of the puzzle to improve our theory."

Any conclusion of physics is imperfect, it depends on the progress of human observation means.

Therefore, even if Einstein proved the theory of relativity, no physicist jumped out and said that he was "anti-Newton", or that Newton's motion theorem was wrong.

Similarly, if one day in the future, when people set foot on more distant galaxies and find that the theory of relativity is no longer applicable in a certain corner of the universe, there will certainly be no physicists saying that the theory of relativity is wrong, but it is still To be improved.

And the Standard Model, too.

Holding his breath, Yan Xinjue asked in a trembling tone: "In other words, Lu Zhou's discovery means new physics?"

Academician Gao thought for a while and gave a vague answer: "Just maybe."

Yes, just maybe.

But even if it's just maybe, it's not easy for a master's student.

...

It has been two and a half months since I set foot on the land of Europe in early May.

Looking at the calendar hanging on the bedside table, Lu Zhou couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

If he had not misremembered the school calendar, the friends in 201 should have finished their last subject at this time, and only the postgraduate entrance examination army was stationed in the entire Jinling University.

If his life trajectory does not deviate from the course, in two months, he will be a junior, and he will have to start thinking about the serious question of whether to study in graduate school or find a job...

As for the present, it is obvious that he no longer has to think about these superficial issues.

It's just that the issues that need to be considered don't seem to be less, but more.

Just two weeks ago, the European Nuclear Research Summit ended, and the researchers of the LHCb Huaguo Cooperation Group returned to China one after another.

Originally, he was on the plane with Academician Lu and Senior Brother Yan, but Academician Lu left him here and asked him to fly back by himself.

As for why, that's a long story.

Just after the report was over, Lynn Evans found him with a brand new personnel contract and extended an invitation to him.

Lu Zhou's identity changed from an intern at CERN to a researcher at CERN.

There is no harm in having another identity, and there is no need to worry about whether you will be bound by this identity here.

For such an international research institution, the mobility of researchers is very high. For example, at the famous Argonne National Laboratory in the United States, the ratio of floating personnel to permanent personnel is even close to 1:1. It is not uncommon for academia to be named in a research institution.

And CERN is probably the one with the highest turnover of personnel among all scientific research institutions.

In addition to member states, there are observer countries and cooperation countries, and CERN has different personnel contracts for researchers sent by different countries and experimental institutions...

These contracts do not specify compensation, so they are not considered employment agreements, but more like a form of identification.

For example, Academician Lu and Senior Brother Yan also have similar identities.

As for what it's good for...

In addition to the convenience of applying for visas and the convenience of entering and exiting various research units that are not open to tourists, it seems that there is no special use.

In addition, if you want to earn some extra money, you can rely on this identity certificate to sign more specific long-term or short-term work or internship contracts with the laboratories here.

Of course, Lu Zhou didn't stay because of the "summer job", but because CERN modified the original experimental arrangement and began to verify the clue he found.

And Lu Zhou wanted to stay and witness whether his deduction was correct.

Of course, this is only one of the reasons.

Another main reason is that the system has not yet judged that the task is over, and it is obviously related to this part.

He didn't dare to leave here because he was worried that the mission would be interrupted.

In short, no matter what the reason is for staying, experiments of this level are not the kind of double-slit interference or small ball pendulum that can quickly obtain experimental results. It could be as little as a month or as much as half a year.

So Academician Lu left Lu Zhou here alone.

After all, for academician-level scientific researchers, time is very precious, and it is impossible to accompany him here to wait for the results.

However, Academician Lu didn't completely ignore him. Before he left, he left 3,000 euros for his living expenses and helped him book the room until the end of July. If the money is not used up, there is no need to return it, it should be regarded as a reward for him.

After all, if this discovery is confirmed, no matter whether there are new particles entering people's field of vision, he will help the LHCb Huaguo research group, which had no sense of existence, earn a sigh of relief.

The meaning behind this cannot be measured by the number of papers.