Chapter 176 An Interview with Nature Weekly

It's boring to stay in the hotel every day waiting for the results. After the nuclear research conference, CERN doesn't have so many high-quality lectures to listen to.

It was really boring and painful, so Lu Zhou went to the nearby Geneva to play around, took pictures in front of various tourist attractions, and bought the things listed on the shopping list by the way.

After returning to the hotel with the booty, Lu Zhou took a photo and posted it on Moments, then turned and went to the bathroom to take a shower.

Maybe it was because he saw this circle of friends, or maybe he was anxious to wait for the purchasing agent. Lu Zhou just got out of the shower and was about to go to bed. Shi Shang's WeChat call came across the sea to greet him.

The first sentence after connecting is...

"Elbow, when are you coming back?"

Sitting under the air conditioner and wiping his hair, Lu Zhou thought for a while and replied casually: "It depends on the situation. I'll be back as soon as the results of the experiments here come out. Tell me what else you want. Anyway, these days are boring. wandering around."

Shi Shang: "Travel at public expense? I'm envious."

Travel at public expense?

That being said, it seems to be true.

Lu Zhou carefully recalled that he had set foot on the territory of Europeans for so long, and he hadn't spent a penny of his money until now.

Shi Shang: "...Well, if you go back to school, you can just put the things you bought on my desk. Don't send them to my house. I have no place to put them there."

Lu Zhou: "Okay, I should go straight back to school, is there anything else?"

Shi Shang shook his head: "It's okay... By the way, why didn't I see you on the scarf this time?"

Lu Zhou froze for a moment, and said doubtfully, "No way, I remember all the photos I took were thrown on the scarf."

Shi Shang: "No, I mean, why didn't I see you pretending to be aggressive."

Lu Zhou: "..."

MMP, what do you mean pretending not to see me.

This serious tone made it seem like I was deliberately pretending to be aggressive every time.

Lu Zhou hung up the phone speechlessly, and threw the phone beside the pillow.

Looking at the calendar that was almost at the end of the month, he sighed.

I don't know when this experiment will be done.

I hope he is right.

Otherwise, even if no one would blame him, he would still feel a little sorry.

...

Lu Zhou originally thought that he would have to wait at least another month to see the results, and he was even ready to exchange some euros.

Unexpectedly, happiness came so suddenly.

It was Professor Greer, who was in charge of monitoring the ATLAS detector data, who told him the news at the first time.

On the phone, Professor Greer didn't say much, but just asked him to go to the office on the R1 floor.

After entering the office, Lu Zhou's first words were——

"what's the result!"

"Your guess is right," responded Lu Zhou's expectations, and put a few pieces of printing paper on the table. Professor Greer still had a face of disbelief, and said with emotion, "The results of the experiment are quite optimistic. We observed the characteristic peak you predicted on CMS and ATLAS at the same time, and many people were quite surprised by this result."

With a sigh of relief, Lu Zhou felt that the dust had settled in his heart.

Although CERN's work is far from settled, and the exploration of this signal has just begun, but for him who drew this treasure hunt map, his work has come to an end.

Looking at Lu Zhou with a relieved face, Professor Greer paused for a moment and continued, "Although we can't be sure what is there, but seeing this result, we can be sure that there should be something there."

Putting away the printing paper on the table, Lu Zhou glanced at it and said casually, "I hope you can find that thing... If you find it, please let me know."

Professor Greer asked, "Are you going back to China?"

"Yes," Lu Zhou nodded, and said with a smile, "I have already waited for the result I want, and...my room fee is almost due."

Although he really wants to know what that signal is, this experiment will be much longer than searching for the characteristic peak of 750GeV. He can't wait here for a year or two for this experiment.

Moreover, if he guessed correctly, at this point, the system task should have been completed.

He planned to receive the reward when he returned home, and at the same time see what the new mission was.

"Before I go back to China, can I ask you to do me a favor? It won't take long, just three days," Professor Greer said, "I can pay for the hotel room fee for you."

Lu Zhou: "What's the matter?"

"An interview about Nature Weekly," Professor Greer said with a smile, "I have a friend who works as an editor there. Although he is not an expert in physics research, he still has some understanding of the field of high-energy physics. When he learned about you, he was even more surprised than I was. Anyway, he was going to come to CERN for a program, so he wanted to interview you by the way. He is on the plane from London to Geneva on August 2nd...so, please trouble Are you staying two days longer in Switzerland?"

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Of course."

Although he doesn't really want to be interviewed by the media, he will still listen to Professor Greer's request.

After all, this professor has always taken good care of him, and the reason why I was able to catch the 750GeV clue was thanks to his help.

And, it's not too much trouble.

...

After the nuclear research conference in early July, CERN couldn't wait to announce the discovery of the pentaquark state particle Pc+ to the outside world, and this, as many people expected, became the most eye-catching research achievement in the physics world this year.

Of course, in addition to those expected results, there are also some unexpected things that have come into people's sight.

For example, there is a characteristic peak at 750GeV.

Yes, this time it is "emerging".

According to the prediction made by Lu Zhou at the report meeting, CERN restarted the collision experiment and adjusted the collision energy of the particle beam to 1TeV.

And the end result, like the performance of the upgraded LHC, is astonishing.

When the number of samples accumulates to a certain level, as predicted in the probability model exhibited in the report, a characteristic peak that cannot be explained by quantum chromodynamics appears in the energy region of 750GeV.

Some speculate that this is the signal released when a heavier particle decays, others speculate that it is a two-photon signal generated by gluon polymerization, and others speculate that this is the last piece of the puzzle on the Standard Model that the theoretical physics community has been looking for for many years— —Supersymmetric particles.

Of course, some people hold a pessimistic attitude. This may be just a quantum fluctuation... Even CERN researchers observed this phenomenon at the same time on the two detectors ATLAS and CMS.

Affected by this discovery, in less than a month, hundreds of papers on the interpretation of this characteristic peak appeared on arxiv, and the number of submissions to major high-energy physics journals more than doubled.

Many famous or unknown physicists have made bold speculations about the information behind this characteristic peak.

No way, these theoretical physicists have been holding back for too long.

High-energy physics is not like condensed matter physics. People's observation methods can never keep up with the speed of theoretical progress. The Standard Model, on the other hand, defines almost everything that people can see, or even invisible, in their field of vision.

As a result, many PhDs engaged in high-energy physics research can't even find a point where they can write a thesis.

Now, the characteristic peak of 750GeV not only provides these people with a chance to graduate, but also puts a golden Nobel Prize in front of them.

What if the water comes out with a Nobel Prize?

These are all bad things to say.

After all, even the collider doesn't know what the 750GeV signal means...

Leaving aside the debates in the field of theoretical physics, the focus of the media and the public's attention lies in another place.

To the uninitiated, this is even more surprising than the pentaquarks.

because……

report this finding.

It turned out to be an intern!

Popular science, naturally not all academic journals, there are general publications