It was boring to stay in the hotel every day waiting for the results. After the nuclear research conference, there were not many high-quality lectures at CERN.
Lu Zhou was bored out of his mind, so he went to Geneva and took pictures of various tourist attractions. He also bought the things on his shopping list.
Lu Zhou returned to the hotel with his loot and uploaded it to his WeChat friend circle. He then went to the bathroom to take a shower.
Maybe it was because Lu Zhou saw the post on his WeChat friend circle, or maybe it was because he was waiting for the shopping agent. Just as he was about to go to bed, he received a WeChat call from Shi Shang.
The first thing he said when he picked up was …
"Zhou, when are you coming back?"
Lu Zhou sat under the air conditioner and dried his hair. He thought for a bit and casually replied, "I'll see. I'll be back when the experiment results come out. Tell me if you need anything else. I've been bored these past few days anyway, so I've been walking around. "
Shi Shang, "Traveling for free? I'm jealous. "
Traveling for free?
Now that he said it, it seemed to be the case.
Lu Zhou carefully thought about it. He had been in European territory for a long time, but he had not spent a single cent.
Shi Shang, "Um, if you go back to school, just put the things you buy on my desk. Don't send them to my house, I don't have anywhere to put them."
Lu Zhou, "Okay, I'll be going back to school. Is there anything else?"
Shi Shang shook his head and said, "Nothing … Oh yeah, how come I don't see you on Weibo?"
Lu Zhou paused for a second and said, "No way, I remember all the photos I took were on Weibo."
Shi Shang, "No, I mean, how come I don't see you bragging?"
Lu Zhou: "…"
F * ck sake, what do you mean you don't see me bragging?
Shi Shang's serious tone makes it sound like I'm bragging.
Lu Zhou was speechless as he hung up the phone and threw it on his pillow.
Looking at the calendar that was almost at the end of the month, he sighed.
I wonder how long this experiment will take.
I hope he's right.
Otherwise, even if no one blamed him, he would still feel apologetic.
…
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.
Who would have thought that happiness would come so suddenly?
The first person to tell him the news was Professor Grayer, who was responsible for monitoring the data of the ATLAS detector.
Professor Grayer didn't say much on the phone. He only asked Lu Zhou to go to the office on the R1 floor.
After entering the office, the first thing Lu Zhou said was —
"What's the result?"
"Your speculation is correct." Professor Grayer responded to Lu Zhou and placed a few pieces of printed paper on the table. He was still in disbelief as he said, "The experiment results are quite optimistic. We observed the characteristic peak on CMS and ATLAS at the same time. Many people were quite surprised by this result."
Lu Zhou let out a sigh of relief. He felt like the dust had settled.
Although CERN's work was far from settled, the exploration of this signal had just begun. However, for him, who drew this treasure map, his work had come to an end.
Professor Grayer looked at Lu Zhou and paused for a second before he continued, "Although we aren't sure what exactly is there, seeing this result, we can be sure that there is something there."
Lu Zhou put away the printed paper on the table. He glanced at it and said, "I hope you guys can find that thing … If you find it, please let me know."
Professor Grayer asked, "You're going back to China?"
"Yes," said Lu Zhou as he nodded and said, "I already got the result I wanted, and … My rent is due soon."
Although he really wanted to know what the signal was, this experiment would take much longer than finding the 750 GeV characteristic peak. He could not wait here for a year or two.
Moreover, if his guess was correct, the System Quest should have been completed by now.
He planned on returning to China to receive his reward and see what the new mission was.
"Before I go back, can I ask you for a small favor? It won't take too long, just three days, "said Professor Grayer. He then added," I can pay for your hotel room. "
Lu Zhou, "What favor?"
"An interview with Nature Weekly," said Professor Grayer. He smiled and said, "I have a friend who is an editor there. Although he's not an expert in physics, he still knows a bit about the field of particle physics. When he heard about you, he was even more surprised than me. Since he's coming to CERN, he wanted to interview you. He's flying from London to Geneva on August 2nd … So, can you stay in Switzerland for two more days? "
Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Of course."
Although he did not really want to be interviewed by the media, he would still listen to Professor Grayer's request.
After all, Professor Grayer had always been taking care of him. The reason why he was able to find the 750 GeV signal was because of Grayer's help.
Also, this was not a big deal.
…
After the nuclear research conference in early July, CERN couldn't wait to announce the discovery of the pentaquark particle Pc + to the outside world. As many people expected, this became the most eye-catching research result in the physics community this year.
Of course, in addition to the expected results, there were also some unexpected things that caught people's attention.
For example, the 750 GeV characteristic peak.
Yes, this time it "appeared".
According to the prediction made by Lu Zhou at the report, CERN restarted the collision experiment and adjusted the collision energy of the particle beam to 1 TeV.
The final result was the same as the upgraded LHC, it was quite amazing.
When the number of samples accumulated to a certain level, just like the probability model displayed at the report, there was a characteristic peak in the 750 GeV energy zone that could not be explained by quantum chromodynamics.
Some people speculated that this was a signal released when a heavier particle decayed. Some people guessed that it was a two-photon signal produced by gluon polymerization. Some people guessed that this was the last piece of the standard model puzzle that the theoretical physics community had been looking for for many years – supersymmetric particles.
Of course, some people had a pessimistic attitude and thought that this might just be quantum fluctuations … Even CERN researchers observed this phenomenon on both ATLAS and CMS detectors.
Due to the impact of this discovery, hundreds of papers explaining this characteristic peak appeared on arXiv in less than a month. The number of papers submitted to major particle physics journals more than doubled.
Many well-known and unknown physicists made bold speculations about the information behind this characteristic peak.
It couldn't be helped, these theoretical physicists had been holding back for too long.
Particle physics was not like condensed matter physics, where people's observation methods could never keep up with the speed of theoretical progress. The standard model had almost defined everything that people could see and even couldn't see.
As a result, many PhDs in particle physics couldn't even find a point to write a thesis on.
But now, the 750 GeV characteristic peak not only gave these people a chance to graduate, but it also placed a shiny Nobel Prize in front of them.
What if there was a Nobel Prize?
This was something that could not be predicted.
After all, even the collider did not know what the 750 GeV signal meant …
Aside from the debates in the theoretical physics community, the focus of the media and the public was somewhere else.
For the laymen, this was even more surprising than the pentaquark.
Because …
This discovery was reported.
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