Chapter 737 Research Progress of the Lunar Hadron Collider

When I woke up, it was already ten o'clock.

When Lu Zhou finished washing, cleaned up and went downstairs, the breakfast buffet on the first floor had been cleaned up, and the chefs were busy preparing lunch.

However, after learning that Lu Zhou hadn't had breakfast yet, the lobby manager of the hotel kindly said that he could ask the chef in the kitchen to make a separate one for him. However, considering that it might cause trouble to other people's work, Lu Zhou politely declined the manager's proposal, saying that he just planned to go out for a walk and just eat something outside.

After walking to the sofa in the lobby and sitting down, Lu Zhou took out his mobile phone and called Wang Peng, asking him to drive to the hotel entrance.

After getting in the car, Wang Peng skillfully drove the car onto the road and asked Lu Zhou who was sitting in the back row.

"Where are you going?"

Lu Zhou thought about it, and originally planned to ask if there are any delicious snacks nearby.

But at this moment, he suddenly thought that Senior Brother Luo had been sent by him to Shangjing for almost half a year, and he hadn't visited anyone in Shangjing for a day, so he said.

"Go to the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences."

"OK."

...

It is now the end of February, and soon after the sting of insects in early March, it will be considered the beginning of spring.

Although the air in Shangjing City is still somewhat cool at this moment, there is no need to wear a down jacket to walk outside. A sweater and a coat are enough.

It happened that the road conditions were good today, and the two arrived at their destination in less than 20 minutes by car.

After getting out of the car, Lu Zhou walked towards the gate of the Institute of High Energy Physics. While registering his name at the gate guard, he inquired about the department where the "Lunar Hadron Collider Project Team" was located, and then followed the gate guard's instructions. The way to go in the direction of the building.

Walking to the door of the office and knocking, the door opened quickly.

The door was opened by a little girl wearing glasses, probably the secretary of the office, who was obviously stunned when she saw Lu Zhou.

Looking at the little girl who was stunned there, Lu Zhou asked politely.

"Hello, is Professor Luo Wenxuan here?"

After recovering from the surprise, the little girl stammered nervously.

"Ah... are you looking for, Professor Luo? He's here..."

Before she could finish speaking, that voice that was very characteristic of Senior Brother Luo floated over through the half-open door.

"Xiaojuan, who is at the door?"

Hearing Senior Brother Luo's voice, Lu Zhou couldn't help but smile, and while walking into the office, he raised his voice and said.

"It's me, coming to see you."

Before the words fell, there was a bang sound, as if something had fallen to the ground.

Suddenly put down the two legs on the desk, looked at Lu Zhou who appeared at the door, and Luo Wenxuan who sat upright from the office chair, his face was full of surprise.

"Hold the grass, God Lu?! Why are you here?"

Hearing Senior Brother Luo's greeting, Lu Zhou, who had just entered the office, almost fell down. After coughing lightly, he couldn't help complaining.

"It's fine for others to tease me, why do you also call this thing?"

"Isn't that called Shunkou?" Luo Wenxuan rubbed the back of his head embarrassingly, and said with a shy smile, "People from the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have been discussing you all day long, listening to their Lu Shen Lu Shen Damn, I'm almost brainwashed."

He nodded his thanks to the little girl who brought him tea, and Lu Zhou, who was sitting on the sofa, asked with a smile.

"What about me?"

Luo Wenxuan looked at Lu Zhou unexpectedly: "You don't know? Didn't you follow the official website of the Chinese Academy of Sciences?"

"...Is there anything on the official website?"

"The official websites of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering announced the list of primary candidates for this academician co-election! Your name is on both lists. I don't know if you have paid attention to this matter. Anyway, this news has recently been circulated in several academic forums. It's been rumored to be crazy."

Seeing what Luo Wenxuan said so vividly, Lu Zhou didn't interrupt him, but smiled embarrassedly.

If this tells him that not only has he entered the primary election, but he has even passed the department review in June, and that he is only a second trial away from voting, I don't know what kind of expression he will have on his face.

However, it's better for him to be clear about this kind of thing. After all, the convenience that Director Qian gave him, Lu Zhou felt a bit out of order no matter how he thought about it. It's better to be a little low-key about this kind of thing.

Finally tired of talking, Luo Wenxuan picked up the cup and took a sip of water, then put down the cup and said to Lu Zhou.

"So you made a special trip to Shangjing just to see me?"

Lu Zhou: "That's not true, I'm mainly here to receive the award."

Luo Wenxuan rolled his eyes, and leaned back on the office chair: "I knew it, you can't lie to me."

"What's the benefit of lying to you, can you give me money?" Lu Zhou smiled and continued, "Speaking of which, how did the design of the lunar hadron collider go?"

Luo Wenxuan waved his hands and said: "The design itself is not difficult. The difficulty of this thing is not in the design, but in how to realize the design. The Chinese Academy of Sciences still attaches great importance to our project. From the BESII project team A lot of experienced engineers were transferred to join our project team, which reduced our workload a lot.”

Although the electron-positron collider of Shangjing Spectrometer is not big, it is small and has all internal organs. The engineers who have participated in the BESII project are all top experts in the field of experimental physics in the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Although the names of these people may not be ranked in the international academic circles, this has nothing to do with their own abilities. The main reason is that experimental physics itself is not as easy to publish articles as high-energy physics, and there are not many opportunities to show their faces. Most of it is obscurity working behind the scenes of theoreticians. And this is enough to be seen from the awarding tendency of some world-class awards.

After hearing that Lu Zhou planned to build a collider on the moon's crater, even though it was difficult to realize this plan, experts from the Institute of High Energy Physics still attached great importance to this project.

After all, for the domestic theoretical physics community that is seriously short of funds, it is very rare for someone to invest money in the collider. No matter how unrealistic the plan sounds, they are not willing to miss this opportunity easily.

If you can't succeed after trying, it is a matter of ability. If you dare not even try, it would be a pity.

"...In addition, recently our project team successfully hooked up with CERN. After hearing about our plan, CERN was very interested. At the beginning of the year, several engineers who had participated in the construction of LHCb were sent here to help us. Solve some technical problems."

Hearing this sentence, Lu Zhou glanced at Luo Wenxuan unexpectedly.

"Will CERN send someone over?"

Luo Wenxuan said with a smile: "Of course they didn't enjoy it so much at first. When the European guys heard that we planned to build a hadron collider on the moon, he thought we were making fun of them." But when they heard about this project After you were the person in charge, you snatched the cooperation agreement and signed it without saying a word. "

Lu Zhou smiled and asked, "What do they want?"

Luo Wenxuan: "Purchase detectors from their partner manufacturers, and if conditions permit, leave them with a few researcher places on the Lunar Hadron Collider after it is completed."

After listening to this sentence, Lu Zhou nodded.

None of these are terribly embarrassing requests.

Compared with other fields, theoretical physics is relatively pure, and the exchanges between research institutions in various countries are also quite close. Although there is a certain competition between them, most of them are cooperation.

If conditions permit, Lu Zhou certainly has no reason to refuse European scholars to participate in the Lunar Hadron Collider project.

After all, research in the field of high-energy physics benefits the entire civilization. This is not the mission of a certain country, but a cause that should be accomplished by gathering the wisdom of all mankind.

Seeing that Lu Zhou didn't speak for a long time, Luo Wenxuan continued: "By the way, I've always wanted to ask you something."

Lu Zhou: "What's the matter? You can ask."

Luo Wenxuan asked in a serious tone: "To be honest, no matter how we improve the design plan, the total weight of the entire project is above the kiloton level. If we really design this thing, you really have Is there a way to get these things to the moon?"

Facing Senior Brother Luo's serious eyes, Lu Zhou was silent for a while, and said in an affirmative tone.

"I can assure you that it can be done, and even if it can't be done, I will try my best to do it."

If thousands of tons of equipment are to be delivered to the surface of the moon, with the current technical capabilities of Xingkong Technology, I am afraid that it is not enough to sell all the stocks of East Asia Power and the related patents of lithium-sulfur batteries in his hands.

However, this is only for now.

If we look at this problem from the perspective of development, this problem is actually not unsolvable.

After the Xiaguang under design is completed, it is not surprising that Xingkong Technology's earth-moon transfer orbit delivery capability will rise to a new level. At the same time, the Aerospace Research Institute of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study and other domestic research institutions are also developing industrial equipment that can realize automatic mining, smelting, and production in outer space.

There are a large amount of titanium ore and system resources stored on the surface of the moon. It is entirely possible for some not very precise structural components to be produced on the moon through automated processing.

Of course, it is difficult for Lu Zhou himself to give an accurate time for how long it will take to achieve this step.

After all, although he is an excellent scholar, he is not an equally excellent engineer.

The future is still very long, and he can only say that he will take one step at a time.

"Let's not talk about work." Putting the teacup in his hand on the table, Lu Zhou ended the topic and said with a smile, "I came to visit you this time, first to see how well you work here. I’m not used to it, and secondly, I’m here to treat you to a meal.”

Luo Wenxuan glanced at Lu Zhou in surprise.

"Since when have you been so generous?"

Lu Zhou was speechless: "What are you talking about, when have I ever been stingy? Are there any good restaurants around here?"

"That's fine, I can't miss such a good event," Luo Wenxuan continued to say with a smile as he stood up from the office chair without saying a word, "It happens that there is a good restaurant nearby, just follow me. "