Chapter 311: Next, Leave It to Me
Qinhuangdao's actions are very fast, or simply to say that these people have long been looking forward to the stars and the moon, and finally looked forward to Liu Feng.
As a result, the list of instruments for the Super Collider was quickly placed on Liu Feng's desk.
Similar to the Beijing Positron Collider, although the scale and structural composition of the Super Collider are much larger than the former, the most basic structure and structure are the same.
The entire Super Collider contains an accelerator, a storage ring, a large array monitor, an ultra-high energy laser, a reducer, a shunt, and a large mobile Penning ion trap.
Among them, the core of this device, which China must import to the West, is the superaccelerator composed of a 100-kilometer-long superconducting magnetic coil and various high-precision testing equipment in a large array monitor.
As for the ultra-high-energy laser, Pengning ion trap device, etc., they are Huaguo's forte, and Liu Feng does not have to worry about this aspect.
In the office, Liu Feng looked at the list of drawings seriously, and his right index finger kept tapping on the table, and those who were familiar knew that this was the Peugeot that he had fallen into deep thought.
If possible, Liu Feng naturally hopes that all the parts of the entire super collider will be made by Huaguo itself, but with Huaguo's current basic industrial level, there is indeed a big gap with the West in the production of superconducting magnets and high-precision precision manufacturing.
The core device of the entire super collider is composed of a circular acceleration tunnel with a circumference of more than 100 kilometers.
Due to the topography, the tunnel is generally located between 50 and 150 meters underground, the diameter of the tunnel itself is up to three meters wide, and the entire tunnel must be on the same plane!
Of course, although the tunnel itself is underground, there are many ground facilities such as cooling compressors, ventilation equipment, control motor equipment, and refrigeration tanks.
In this annular accelerator, two streams of high-energy particles will propagate forward at close to the speed of light before colliding with each other, and the two streams of particles will travel in opposite directions through different beam tubes, so both tubes must be in an ultra-high vacuum.
Therefore, a strong magnetic field is needed to cause a stream of high-energy particles to orbit around that acceleration ring, and this strong magnetic field is obtained using superconducting magnetics.
It can be said that the success or failure of everything depends on whether these superconducting electromagnetic stones meet the design requirements.
However, it is clear that superconducting magnetics are made of special cables, which can operate in a superconducting state, effectively conduct current, and have no resistance or energy loss, and to achieve this result, in addition to the extremely demanding requirements for the production and manufacture of superconducting materials, it is also necessary to cool the magnet to minus 271 °C, which is lower than the temperature of outer space!
Therefore, for this reason, most accelerators are connected to a liquid helium shunt system and other equipment that is used to cool the magnets.
It's a pity that whether it is the production of superconducting electromagnetic stone or the liquid helium shunt cooling system, Huaguo's technology in these two aspects is far from meeting the design requirements of the super collider!
Maybe one or two superconducting electromagnets, Huaguo can still produce them through gritted teeth, but the super collider needs to use tens of thousands of magnets of different types and models to guide the particle beams around the accelerator!
These magnets also include the 15-meter-long 1232 bipolar magnet and the 392 quadrupole magnet, the 1232 bipolar magnet is used to bend the particle beam, the 392 quadrupole magnet is 5 to 7 meters long, each is used to concentrate the particle stream, and the superconducting electromagnet similar to the 1232 bipolar magnet and the 392 quadrupole magnet, Huaguo's research in this year is still blank!
It's hard, it's hard.
Moreover, in addition to superconducting magnetics, large-scale array particle monitors are a major problem.
The Super Collider is designed with four collision points, each with five detectors installed in the crypt at the collision point, of which the super-torus instrument and the compact muon coil are general-purpose particle detectors, and the other three bottom quark detectors, the large ion collider and the full-section elastic scattering detector are smaller special target detectors.
However, even a small full-section elastic scattering detector weighs more than 5,000 tons, while the Beijing spectrometer is only more than 600 tons after upgrading.
The upgrading and transformation of the Beijing spectrometer alone took almost several years of the Institute of High Energy of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and together with hundreds of relevant units, hundreds of problems were overcome, and the upgrading and transformation was barely completed by its own strength......
Thinking of this, Liu Feng felt a headache.
Anyone can design the design drawings of the monitor, the key is whether it can be produced and processed!
This not only involves very high-precision processing requirements, but also the requirements for particle photosensitive materials are very demanding, and the technical accumulation of the Beijing spectrometer manufactured by the Institute of High Energy of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is completely insufficient to solve the production and manufacturing of Daxin array monitor.
Speaking of which, this is also a historical account owed by Huaguo's basic industry!
There is still a long way to go to localize the device.
However, the localization of the device is imperative!
After all
Once the antimatter project is realized, it will be impossible for Huaguo to have only one super collider, and the number of super colliders that need to be used will be not thousands, but probably hundreds of them, so as to ensure that there is a steady stream of antimatter production.
Huaguo can't always buy equipment from outside, and others won't necessarily sell it to you!
In short, self-reliance is king!
Thinking of this, Liu Feng shook his head.
Even if he can hang up, there is no good way for Huaguo to overtake in corners, after all, the accumulation of science and technology cannot break out in a day or two, and it is not something that can be completely made up by one or two geniuses.
Therefore, he can only look at the few manufacturers in the West who can produce and manufacture these things and drool.
That's it.
Instead of envying the fish in the abyss, it is better to retreat and close the net, and distribute these projects while there is still time now, and he Liu Feng will smash these things out even if he uses money!
As for now, let's solve the problem of whether there is or not!
Slapping the table hard, Liu Feng made up his mind.
In the end, he handed over the production and purchase list to Zhang Qin.
……
Around 10 a.m.
Spanning most of China, the Pengning ion trap device transported from the laboratory of Sichuan University in the southwest of China was finally sent to the positron collider laboratory of the Beijing Institute of High Energy.
With the arrival of the equipment in the capital, there was naturally Academician Tian Xuelin and his party.
Although it was not the first time to take an Air Force transport plane, after getting off the plane, Academician Tian Xuelin still felt that his old bones had a tendency to fall apart, and his face was miserable.
The old Il-76 transport plane of the Air Force, that kind of taste, people who have been on it once will definitely not want to take a second flight.
It's just that who made him the person in charge of the Penning ion trap device?
People are in the device, and they can't be half a step away from the device......
This time it was Liu Feng who personally picked up the opportunity, after all, he was idle and idle, and he could communicate with Academician Tian Xuelin for the first time, and he could rest assured earlier.
Like last time, this time Academician Tian Xuelin still rested for a while, and waited until his face looked better, and then he had time to deal with people.
Looking at Liu Feng with a smile on his face, Academician Tian's expression was a little strange.
"Professor Liu, have you recently switched to studying biomedicine?"
"No," Liu Feng was slightly stunned, "Why do you ask?"
"It's nothing," Academician Tian shook his head, "when I didn't say anything." ”
This guy, in his spare time researching antimatter engineering, even has time to come up with a special drug for cancer treatment, and always feels that if he continues to develop in the field of biomedicine, he is likely to become the greatest biomedical scientist of the 21st century.
But for them in the physics community, the loss is great.
"Okay, actually, I know what you want to say," Liu Feng sighed, scratching his head with some distress, "The research on cancer drugs is not that difficult to say...... Who called me this person just can't be idle? No, here in the antimatter project, as soon as your Pengning ion trap device is completed, won't I rush back to the capital?"
Tian Xuelin: "......"
Cancer drugs are not so difficult...... Also, who made you Professor Liu?
"Anyway, as long as you remember being the deputy chief engineer of antimatter engineering. ”
Liu Feng touched his nose embarrassedly, raised his eyes to look at the Il-76 that was unloading, and glanced at this old antique with some subtlety.
Academician Tian Xuelin grinned: "Don't worry, the Pengning ion trap is not so expensive! What's more, the device will need to be transferred more than once or twice in the future, if it is broken like this, you dare to use this thing to store antimatter?"
Seeing that the engineering troops took out more than 10 sealed wooden boxes from the plane, Liu Feng, Academician Tian Xuelin, and others followed the convoy carrying goods back to the Institute of High Energy of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
After a few hours of tossing.
Finally, under the dismantling of professionals, the device in the wooden box was taken out, and after Academician Tian Xuelin instructed the installers to pay attention to some matters that must be paid attention to, he carefully started from the instrument marked with No. 1 equipment and assembled it.
Fortunately, they have pre-installed the equipment before it arrived, and now they only need to draw the gourd and assemble it again, without doing too much operation.
However, it is certainly not possible to just put the instruments together, this is something that is used to store antimatter, and if it is missed, no one can afford to do so.
Under the introduction of Academician Tian, Liu Feng also took the trouble to analyze and scan each device, and with the help of the ability, all flaws will be hidden.
"That's it!"
Finally, the installation of the last part of the equipment was completed, and Liu Feng, who breathed a sigh of relief, let go of the last trace of worry, stretched his waist, and moved his somewhat stiff neck.
Since the antimatter production experiment carried out this time is almost 100 times that of the previous one, and the duration will be extended from 1 day to a full 20 days, Liu Feng cannot afford to slack off in the slightest in terms of safety and the success rate of the experiment.
He had already scanned the entire Positron Collider's devices with anomalous energy, and now that he had no problem even the final Penning ion trap device, the experiment could finally begin in earnest.
Of course, although he dared to pack the ticket equipment without any problems, others did not have the confidence he had, and the pre-experiment that should have must be there.
The Penning ion trap device itself can be used to store other high-energy charged particles, so the steps of the pre-experiment are quite simple, directly combined with the positron collider, the high-energy particles are injected into the Penning ion trap, and if there is no problem at this step, it is considered to have passed the test.
Although it sounds simple, the amount of manpower and material resources spent on each pre-experiment is not a small amount.
Of course, it's not that expensive.
At least compared to other precious metals and supermaterials consumed in the lab, a little electricity is relatively cheap.
In the case of the half-ton ultra-high-energy laser equipment in the electron-positron collider, the average cost of one gram is equivalent to one gram of gold!
Although it was not their own money spent, everyone was careful not to cause a little damage to the device.
Fortunately, Boss Wang, who served as the on-site commander in the central control room, lived up to his hopes and did not have any problems in the pre-experiment.
Letting go of the last trace of worry, Academician Tian Xuelin looked at Liu Feng and asked.
"I'm OK here, so what else do we need to test next?"
After Liu Feng thought about it, he said, "No need to do any more tests, let's start the experiment directly."
The rest of the work is very simple, under the order of Boss Wang, the commander-in-chief of the scene, everyone is operating the instrument step by step.
The special cable pulled from the Beijing substation transmitted the violent energy, through the accelerator of the positron and negative electron collider, the violent electrical energy was converted into a strong magnetic field, and the high-energy particles were then accelerated by the strong magnetic field, and the metal target collided violently at a speed close to the speed of light, and a large number of charged antiproton fragments were generated and then sent into the Penning ion trap under the drainage of the strong magnetic field, through the shunt and the reducer.
At the same time, the remaining large number of charged protons, under the irradiation of the ultra-high-energy laser emitting device, the charged nature of the proton center is immediately transformed—a large amount of antimatter is generated, and then through the separator and reducer, it is sent into the Penning ion trap......
Instruments at all levels are running stably.
Confirming that the strong magnetic field of the Penning ion trap device remained at a stable value, Academician Tian muttered to himself while skillfully inputting various parameters.
"Continue to keep the current at 300A, the magnetic field working distance is 80cm, and the scanning mode of the monitor is Sei!"
Through the LCD screen on the controller, the experimenters carefully accepted the instructions of Academician Tian Xuelin, and Liu Feng, who was standing nearby, couldn't help but hold his breath.
After all, 1mg of antimatter and 100mg of antimatter can essentially flatten high-energy sites, and there are no technical problems in producing 1mg and 100mg.
The protagonist of the experiment is still the Penning ion trap device.
The results of this experimental design not only need to achieve the binding effect of 100mg of antimatter, but also store it for at least 10 days, and during the storage process, the Penning ion trap device can also carry out a transition.
If any of them fails to achieve the purpose of the experiment, this experiment can be regarded as a failure.
The first step is to keep the storage experiment in order, all the work is ready and running, and then it's time to sit back and wait for the results to come in.
For 20 days and nights, there can be no pause in the middle, even if the instrument can bear it, people can't bear it.
Therefore, Liu Feng has already divided the personnel arrangement into three waves and implemented the three-shift model.
Compared with the previous tedious and complicated operation, the process after the experiment is stabilized is much easier and more enjoyable.
By monitoring the real-time data fed back by the computer, simply adjusting the acceleration voltage and working distance, and then switching the detector, Liu Feng can easily collect any data he wants.
The time gradually came to night.
Looking at the instruments in the stable work, Liu Feng said to Academician Tian Xuelin, who was operating the computer with relish.
"Academician Tian, I think you need to do something now. ”
Academician Tian rubbed his scarlet eyes and said seriously: "You just command." ”
"I think you should go and rest, and leave the rest to me......"