"… Actually, this isn't over yet. NATO heard about this from somewhere and specifically came to CERN to ask if it was true. Guess how CERN replied?"
"How did they reply?"
Yan Xinjue imitated Evans' tone and joked, "Of course it's true, but the premise is that you have to build a Hadron Collider the size of Saturn, build a reactor the size of the Moon, and throw all the helium-3 on the surface of the Moon into the reactor. If all these conditions were met, perhaps a black hole could be created in the understanding of ordinary people? So, pay up first. "
Lu Zhou laughed.
Although Yan Xinjue didn't continue, he could guess that NATO definitely didn't pay up in the end.
Building a Hadron Collider the size of Saturn could only be used to threaten aliens.
Soon, the car arrived at the entrance of the research center in the North District.
After parking the car in the garage, Yan Xinjue took Lu Zhou to the main entrance of the research center.
…
To make it easier for the layman to understand, a Hadron Collider can be abstracted into two parts. One was two small water pipes wrapped in beryllium metal, and the other was a variety of detectors buried in a large pipe outside the two small water pipes.
Two almost parallel tracks intersected in a flat "X" shape, accelerating in different directions, and the two particle beams "collided" at this intersection point.
There were about four "reaction points" like this, and around these reaction points, various detectors were connected to collect the physical phenomena produced by the collision of particle beams.
Of course, it wasn't so coincidental that all particles could collide, and the colliding particles might not coincidentally destroy the internal strong interaction force.
Therefore, the principle of the entire collider was to squeeze as many particles as possible into a limited pipeline and accumulate small probability of collisions in a long period of data accumulation.
This was the discovery of the Higgs particle that shocked the physics community.
The research center that Yan Xinjue took Lu Zhou to visit was responsible for observing and collecting collision data. There were also many laboratories in the research center responsible for collecting data from different detectors.
Walking into one of the laboratories, he saw a bearded man in a white coat drinking coffee in front of a computer in the laboratory.
Senior Brother Yan walked up to greet him and introduced him to Lu Zhou.
"This is Professor Grayer. You can see his name in a lot of CERN theses. He's been working here since I first interned here."
"Please don't make me sound so old. I've only been working here since 2008," said Professor Grayer with a friendly smile. He reached out his hand and said, "Nice to meet you, Mr. Lu."
"Hello, hello." Lu Zhou smiled and shook hands with him.
Originally, he thought that Mr. Grayer, who Yan Xinjue often mentioned, would be around the same age as Professor Lu Shenjian. He did not expect Mr. Grayer to look surprisingly young. He was in his forties.
Professor Grayer let go of Lu Zhou's hand and said, "Unfortunately, I can't take you around here. The experiment is about to start, and I have to keep an eye on these computers. If you came here half a month earlier, I could have taken you down there. However, the entrances are all blocked. You can't get in without an ID."
Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Why would I be sorry? We're standing in the special seats of history."
"Haha, you must have thought this way because you just came to CERN," Professor Grayer said with a smile. "There are thousands of people sitting in the special seats here. Other than the theses that were independently written by various research teams, almost every thesis here has thousands of authors in alphabetical order. Once you become a researcher here, you'll understand this feeling. "
Thousands of authors in alphabetical order …
Emm …
Thinking about it this way, working here was quite boring.
Suddenly, Lu Zhou noticed that the image on the computer screen was moving. He asked, "Has the experiment started?"
Professor Grayer smiled and said, "Not yet, it's only in the trial phase. We have to ensure that the channel is smooth and the detector is operating normally. Therefore, before we start looking for the pentaquark, we will run it a few times. What you see now is the photon pair captured on ATLAS and some other messy stuff. "
Lu Zhou looked at the image on the computer screen and frowned.
With his sensitivity to numbers, looking at the data on the image, he had an inexplicable sense of déjà vu.
However, he could not remember where he had seen it before.
Lu Zhou could not help but ask curiously.
"Why do I feel like this image is familiar?"
"Because we're looking at the B1 partition data, and the data for this partition was collected by Professor Grayer. If you sort out the data, you'll find it even more familiar, "said Yan Xinjue. He smiled when he heard Lu Zhou's question.
"Oh, speaking of which, I heard that you guys made that old guy Brunos suffer?" said Professor Grayer with a smirk.
"What do you mean suffer? We're all contributing to a great cause," said Yan Xinjue as he mimicked Professor Lu Zhou's tone.
Grayer laughed and said, "Hahaha, no wonder he didn't look good when I went back to the headquarters."
It seemed that Professor Brunos was not very popular. Not only did he have a grudge with Professor Lu Zhou, but he also did not get along well with Professor Grayer.
The two stood there and bragged for a while. The topic soon changed from Professor Brunos to the experiment.
When Professor Grayer knew that Lu Zhou was interested in this laboratory, he excitedly patted the computer in front of him and began to introduce it.
"CERN not only has the world's largest Hadron Collider, but it also has the world's most advanced computer system, LCG. Through this thing, we can help hundreds of computers scattered around the world and hundreds of laboratories simultaneously process experimental data … This computer is one of them, it's mainly responsible for collecting data from the ATLAS detector …"
"… Through this computer, you can even see the trajectory of the colliding protons in the compact muon solenoid … Of course, this is a model based on the feedback data. There are still many differences from the real situation, but the difference is not too big."
Professor Grayer added in a serious tone.
"If you're interested in particle physics, you can come to me. I'm lacking an assistant who's good at mathematics. As for you personally, the experience of working at CERN will also become your … "
Yan Xinjue interrupted, "Don't listen to him. Even if you work here for more than ten years and publish hundreds of theses, you won't get a first author. With thousands of theses, no one in China will recognize your scientific research experience. "
Professor Grayer clicked his tongue and looked at Yan Xinjue with dissatisfaction.
Shrugging his shoulders nonchalantly, Senior Martial Brother Yan grinned, "Don't blame me for exposing you. I can't just watch you trick my junior martial brother."
Professor Grayer stubbornly corrected him, "How is this fooling? I'm just giving you a friendly suggestion! "
Lu Zhou could tell that the two had a good relationship.
Maybe it was because Yan Xinjue was fooled before …
In the end, the conversation between the two became aimless chatting, and Lu Zhou didn't pay attention to it anymore.
This was because his attention was attracted by the data on the computer screen.
Suddenly, when Lu Zhou saw the data of a certain energy zone on the map, he frowned slightly and couldn't help but make a sound of surprise.
Yan Xinjue noticed Lu Zhou's expression and asked casually.
"What's wrong?"
Lu Zhou pointed at the computer screen.
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