“WTF？！”
Kerella, who was sitting in the Syracuse University research team, saw the person standing on the stage. Her eyes widened in surprise, and she subconsciously cursed.
Professor Brunos, who was sitting next to her, frowned and asked.
"What?"
"Nothing …"
Kerella gulped and hurriedly reached for her notes. She tried to cover up her gaffe.
However, the surprise in her heart did not change at all.
She could not imagine that in just a month, he was already standing there.
This kind of contrast was too shocking for her, who was also an intern.
On the other side, Luo Wenxuan, who was sitting next to Edward Witten, also looked at the podium in surprise. The shock in his heart was no less than Yan Xinjue and the others, who were sitting more than ten meters away.
Luo Wenxuan did not understand why a mathematician like him would be standing there.
Speaking of which, did he really participate in the experiment?
On the other hand, Edward Witten, who was sitting next to him, did not look surprised. Instead, he looked a bit interested.
Obviously, he recognized the person on the stage.
He was also looking forward to seeing what would happen.
What kind of amazing discovery would this young man, who once shocked everyone in Princeton, make here?
…
Lu Zhou stood on the podium and looked at the pairs of eyes. He took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down. He did not pay attention to the big names sitting in the audience.
Then, he slowly opened his mouth and spoke.
"Let me introduce myself. I am Lu Zhou from the University of Jin Ling in China. I am honored to participate in this international experiment as an intern. Because of this opportunity, I had the opportunity to discover these interesting phenomena."
Lu Zhou knew that the big bosses didn't care about these details, so he briefly introduced himself. He then pressed the projection button on the laser pointer and played the first page of the powerpoint. He quickly went into the main topic.
"About a month ago, I happened to be at the northern experimental site. When the collider was testing a 1TeV collision, I observed several extremely special cases on the ATLAS detector."
Lu Zhou turned the PowerPoint to the next page and pointed to several coordinates on the image. "It's here. Isn't it surprising? We observed a few very special signals at 750 GeV. "
Sitting in the audience, Peter Higgs grinned. Although he didn't laugh out loud, his expression clearly showed his disapproval.
"This is the reporter you recommended?"
Frank smiled and said, "That's right."
Peter couldn't help but tease, "Then have you ever told him about quantum fluctuation theory? My students and I usually talk about it. "
"I know what you want to say. You think this discovery is worthless." Frank smiled and continued, "Do you want to bet $100? I bet he can convince you. "
Peter looked him up and down.
"I don't know why you are so confident, but if you continue like this, sooner or later, you will lose all the money the Nobel Committee gave you."
Frank smiled indifferently at his old friend's teasing.
"That might not be the case."
…
When the people in the audience saw the "research results" displayed by Lu Zhou, they didn't think much of it. They even chuckled a few times.
Even though the chuckle was hard to detect, it was particularly ear-piercing in the ears of the reporters.
There was no doubt that most people weren't convinced by the data collected during the test track.
Even though a few isolated cases seemed a bit out of place, it wasn't worth paying attention to. This was because there was a very classical "quantum uncertainty theorem" in quantum mechanics, which could perfectly explain this phenomenon. That was, a small amount of energy was allowed to be generated randomly in pure space, as long as the energy disappeared in a short period of time.
Only a few people showed an expression of interest.
However, Lu Zhou had expected this situation, so he didn't take it to heart. He continued to speak without changing his expression.
"I know that somebody will subconsciously realize that it must be a two-photon signal, or an error within the allowable range, such as the quantum fluctuation that you think it is.
"Therefore, I deliberately found the data from the search for the Higgs particle in 2012, analyzed it using statistical methods, and built a probability model."
Lu Zhou continued to press the play button.
The next second, the screen was filled with dense formulas.
In fact, similar phenomena had been reflected in the data as early as 2012, and it appeared on both the ATLAS and CMS detectors. If all of this was a coincidence, then it was too much of a coincidence.
This was his biggest theoretical fulcrum!
Lu Zhou looked at the steps displayed on the PowerPoint behind him. He placed his hands on the podium and spoke in a confident tone.
"I checked the data of this section again and confirmed that under the spin2 selection condition on the ATLAS detector, the results of various variable reactions can be determined. There must have been a collision in this energy zone.
"And according to the probability model behind me, I can confidently say that if the data collected on the ATLAS and CMS detectors are correct, when the number of samples is accumulated, there will definitely be a characteristic peak in the 750 GeV energy zone!
"Maybe it is a new and heavier Higgs particle, maybe it is a graviton, maybe it is just a two-photon signal, all kinds of possibilities exist, even …"
Lu Zhou paused for a second. He looked around at the venue that had become silent. He took a deep breath and spoke.
"It might even be the last piece of the puzzle we have been looking for.
"The supersymmetric particle!"
The audience was quiet.
Everyone's faces were filled with astonishment at this unexpected turn of events.
At first, almost everyone thought that the data was worthless, but after seeing the demonstration process on the screen … many people began to doubt the conclusion that they had subconsciously made.
If the number of samples accumulated to a large enough value, the probability of this characteristic peak appearing was as high as 84.5%. Although this characteristic peak did not necessarily mean that a new particle would appear, it was already worth researching.
This discovery seems …
Kind of interesting?
Luo Wenxuan was sitting in the back of the conference room. He looked at the calculations on the screen and quickly checked the correctness of these calculations in his mind.
However, it was obvious that someone was one step faster than him.
This person was the Fields Prize winner sitting next to him — Edward Witten.
"He's right." Witten, who was staring at the screen, nodded and said, "At least it's mathematically correct."
Luo Wenxuan had a look of surprise on his face as he spoke.
"Are you saying that he discovered a new particle?"
"I didn't say that. Neither mathematicians nor physicists can directly see the particles in the microscopic world." Witten shrugged and smiled as he said, "The only thing that can discover particles is the collider. All we theoreticians can do is draw a treasure map for the real 'treasure hunters'."
But just this alone was enough.
There was a round of applause.
Then, from a corner of the venue, it spread in all directions, tearing apart the silence of the previous second.
Lu Zhou could even feel his heart beating wildly in his chest as he listened to the applause that came like a tidal wave.
The situation was clear.
Regardless of whether the 750 GeV characteristic peak represented a treasure or not, regardless of whether the sensitivity of ATLAS and CMS detectors would be able to find the treasure or not, CERN did not miss this clue. In other words, CERN discovered this clue ahead of time.
For him personally, his hard work over the past month was not in vain.
As for the more distant things, he had not thought about it yet.
In the midst of the applause, Lu Zhou had a smile on his face as he finally relaxed his clenched fists.
He faced the thunderous applause and bowed slightly.
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