Chapter 389: One Step Closer to Genius
Regarding the arrangement of Professor Ding Zhaozhong and a group of 'international friends', in fact, Liu Feng already had a draft in his heart, but he still wanted to hear what other people thought.
"Boss, do you have any comments from here?"
After thinking about it, Academician Wang said directly: "Once this matter is not handled well, it is very likely that scientists from other countries will have a bad impression of our country, but as long as we solve one person, everyone else will be easy to handle......
Liu Feng nodded, he also had this thought: "The person you are talking about should be Professor Ding." ”
"That's right!" Academician Wang also nodded, "With his old man's connections and prestige, in the field of high-energy physics, as long as he takes the lead, no one else will say anything, but it depends on what you mean." ”
"Me?"
Academician Wang: "Yes, after all, you are the person in charge of antimatter engineering, you should understand what I mean......"
Nodding and shaking his head, Liu Feng groaned for a while.
What Boss Wang means is that what kind of function does Liu Feng want Ding Lao to play, whether to continue to study high-energy physics or engage in antimatter!
And that's where the problem comes in.
What kind of person is Professor Ding?
A leader in the field of high-energy physics!
Even if he himself doesn't care too much about certain things, they can't help but care!
Huaguo must put up the banner of the old man, that is to say, the old man must be given a suitable position, and even in addition to the personnel power, the experimental leadership of the entire super collider!
Of course, with his own prestige, it is completely okay for Liu Feng to directly grasp the leadership of the laboratory, and no one else will say anything about this, and Professor Ding will not care, but he can't stay on the side of the super collider all the time!
Moreover, originally they had planned before, and the best person in charge of this position should be Academician Wang, and now ......
After thinking about it, Liu Feng replied: "I will make a decision on this matter after I communicate with Professor Ding, at least, I personally think that it is not appropriate to let Professor Ding participate in antimatter engineering for the time being." ”
Nodding, Academician Wang breathed a sigh of relief and understood what Liu Feng meant.
It's not that he can't bear this position, but sometimes, he has to fight!
What's more, everyone has their own ambitions, and he, Wang Yifang, is in the prime of his life, and the ambitions in his heart are not comparable to ordinary people...... Wherever you are, if you want to achieve your ambitions, you must have the most power possible!
"Well, I see, no matter what, I support your decision. ”
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After talking to Boss Wang, and then ordering the meeting, Liu Feng first returned to his office, turned out the specific plans and arrangements for the experiment on the side of the Super Collider Research Institute, and then got up and went to the main conference room of the Institute.
I didn't stay long, and soon the rest of the house came.
Mainly the researchers and engineers in the institute who can know about antimatter engineering, Liu Feng held a short meeting and learned about the situation from various departments.
According to the heads of several departments, the current stage of work is basically revolving around the commissioning of the second half of the super collider.
In other words, in order to maintain as much secrecy as possible, the antimatter functional modules are completed first: such as the Penning ion trap device, antimatter deceleration, cooling, and shunt systems, etc.
The debugging of these functional modules has basically been carried out, and the next work is mainly the debugging of the collision module, and this part is likely to be attended by 'international friends'.
Moreover, during this period of time, many experts who have just returned from abroad to join the institute have many doubts, and this meeting also means to 'solve their doubts'.
Sitting at the conference table, Academician Gao Yuanning, who came back from CERN, asked with a serious expression:
"Whether it's for the production of antimatter or purely for high-energy physical collision experiments, the Super Collider's large particle accelerator is absolutely at the heart of the core! However, unlike other particle colliders, our collider circular tunnel has a diameter of more than 5 meters, and is more than 100 kilometers long, and there are many ground facilities such as cooling compressors, ventilation equipment, control motor equipment, freezer tanks and other buildings, this part of the commissioning work is the most difficult, the original CERN LHC, it took 2 years to complete the commissioning! and we, really only need 5 months or even less to complete?"
"Of course, it could be that I don't know much about ......"
"Academician Gao's doubts must also be the doubts of many experts who have just joined our project, and I can answer them systematically for you here. Academician Wang first glanced at Liu Feng and nodded, then stood up and explained.
Maybe it is because it has not adapted to the environment, or the gap in the heart is too big, or it wants to fight for something further, during this time, there are many 'newcomers' in the base who think that the institute is eager for quick success or even great success, and the work that people need to complete in 3 months in Europe, and it is simply irresponsible to complete it in a month or even less time!
In this regard, Liu Feng fully knows that this is just these people playing on the topic, the drunkard's intention is not to drink, as the chief designer of the project, he must maintain his authority and defeat the signs of these people, because in this critical period, the entire base needs and must only have one voice!
Therefore, this is the performance of Academician Gao and Boss Wang.
"There are three main reasons why the plan takes only five months or less. ”
"First, our Super Collider was designed with state-of-the-art theory and production processes, which has a higher level of system integration than the LHC, which can save a lot of time during commissioning and future formal experiments. ”
"Second, although our Super Collider is much larger in size, it is naturally faster because of the experience of our predecessors and the fact that we have invested three times as many people as the original LHC. ”
"Finally, of course, there is the issue of working hours and efficiency. Presumably, everyone has already realized that the working hours of our institute are three shifts, which is not as comfortable as other LHCs, and when people stop the machines, they are naturally much faster than the original LHCs. ”
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The questions and answers of Academician Gao and Boss Wang dispelled the doubts of many people, and even dispelled the small actions of those people.
Once there are bad signs in the research institute, Liu Feng doesn't even need him to go down in person, and others take the initiative to help him solve it.
After all
At this juncture, Professor Liu's authority is absolutely unquestionable, and this is also the unanimous idea of the entire core figures of antimatter engineering!
Of course, in addition to this kind of problem, technical problems will be Liu Feng's turn to end up in person.
In an ordinary collider, two proton tubes are mainly placed in the annular channel of the accelerator, and the accelerator tube is covered by superconducting magnets, mainly cooled by liquid helium, and when the collision experiment begins, the protons in the tube are in the opposite direction, orbiting the entire annular accelerator.
However, in addition to the two proton beam tubes, the super collider in Shanhaiguan also has an ultra-laser pipeline, which can further strengthen the collision with an ultra-high-energy laser when the protons in the two proton beam pipes collide, or can selectively perform laser collision at the tail end of the pipeline flow after the proton collision.
In addition, there are four experimental collision points set in the annular channel of the normal collider, such as the four collision points of the LHC acceleration ring, and five detectors are installed in the crypt at the collision point.
The ATLAS and CMS are general-purpose particle detectors, while the other three (LHC Bottom Quark Detector (LHCb), Large Ion Collider (ALICE) and Full Section Elastic Scattering Detector (TOTEM) are smaller special target detectors.
However, Huaguo's Super Collider has 12 experimental collision points, and there is only one detector installed near the collision point - a large array integrated detector!
Therefore, the debugging of the two is completely different, and there is no experience to learn from, and problems will ensue.
This time, even Academician Fang Shouxian was stumped.
"Professor Liu, our array integrated detector has two modes, one is the general-purpose full-spectrum analysis mode, and the other is the special target analysis mode, however, when we debugged, we found that the special target analysis mode is actually lower than the specific target analysis accuracy in the general-purpose full-spectrum analysis mode......
Hearing Academician Fang's question, Liu Feng frowned.
Obviously, this situation is absolutely abnormal, according to the design of the instrument, under the analysis of a specific target, the latter should theoretically be more accurate, but the result is diametrically opposite.
"Did you bring all the experimental data?"
"It's all here. Fang Shouxian nodded, and immediately handed over a document, "This situation has occurred more than once, we have successively debugged 5 sets of experimental targets, and two groups of targets have this situation. ”
Liu Feng took the document and read it carefully.
As the minutes ticked by, the conference room was so quiet that only the ticking of the clock on the wall could be heard.
Liu Feng didn't speak, and the engineers sitting at the conference table waited patiently.
Finally, after reading all the information in his hand, Liu Feng closed the document, handed the materials back to Academician Fang, and scanned the audience in the conference room: "Do you have a solution to the problems encountered by Academician Fang?"
However, everyone shook their heads, they didn't even know why this was happening, let alone solving it.
There are even people who wonder if there is a quality defect in the instrument itself, after all, this is not unlikely.
Finally, Academician Fang expressed his opinion: "After discussion, most people believe that this situation is likely to be due to the fact that the optical components of the instrument itself are not up to standard......"
"No, it's not the optics. ”
Seeing the expressions of the experts, Liu Feng shook his head and directly denied Academician Fang's opinion.
However, just when everyone listened and thought that this guy would explain in detail, this thing's behavior was unexpected by everyone.
"Okay, that's all for today's meeting, you guys go back first, starting tomorrow, all departments will have two days off, and the day after tomorrow will come back to report. ”
Announcing the end of the meeting and the holiday arrangement, facing the eyes of surprise and suspicion, Liu Feng smiled faintly: "I still have a question to confirm, and in three days, I will give you an answer!"
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The meeting ended in a hurry.
After the meeting ended, a group of people left the conference room, and only Liu Feng stayed inside.
Walking to Academician Wang's side, Fang Shouxian obviously hesitated for a moment, and finally said in a confused tone: "What does he think?"
Wang Yifang smiled: "Do you mean the problem you mentioned just now or something else?"
Seeing Academician Wang's appearance of Mount Tai collapsing in front of him without moving, and he also had the heart to laugh, Fang Shouxian sighed:
"You two masters and apprentices, since you have said this, then tell me these two questions. The problem of the detector is related to whether the whole collider can smoothly enter the next stage, and every day we are racing against time, but Professor Liu even gave us a holiday? And, you know, what do you want to arrange for those people?
Wang Yifang raised her head and thought about it, and said, "Let's talk about the previous question first, don't you see that the kid already has eyebrows?"
"Really eyebrows?" Fang Shouxian was slightly stunned, still shaking his head in disbelief, "Of course we all recognize Professor Liu's strength, and we probably can't find a few physicists in the world who are more powerful than him." It's just that he can really solve the problem in three days? You know, this problem has been bothering us for more than a month, right? Besides, why didn't he say it on the spot at the meeting? You should know that some people have not been very convinced by him......
"I can't say this question clearly, but I'm sure this kid won't be untargeted......"
"Well, we'll see the answer in three days anyway, so there's no need to worry too much. ”
Wang Yifang only frowned slightly, and then talked about the next question unhurriedly,
"As for those people...... Anyway, the sky is falling, and there is a high top, so let's leave it to him for a headache!"
Fang Shouxian: "......"
The two masters and apprentices are really angry, and the people around them are about to die, but the two of them seem to be nothing!
But he didn't have a problem with these two people.
After all
Who called these two guys one is the head of the high-energy institute,
One is the head of the antimatter project?
It's all his head......
Alas!
I have to say that for Liu Feng's understanding, except for Boss Duan, Boss Wang is definitely one of the best.
Just now, when he finished reading Academician Fang's data, Liu Feng quickly discovered the anomalies of these data, and then deduced the answer in his mind.
No one on the planet could better know about the Super Collider, and he thought about speaking his mind at the time, but when he tried to translate the answer in his head into physical language, he quickly dispelled the idea.
How could he explain the answer that came out of the ability opening simulation?
Does it mean that he can directly deduce the correct data without experimenting?
If this is the case, then what high-energy physics experiments are needed, just take Professor Liu's words as the 'Bible'......
Obviously, this is not possible.
No matter how powerful he Liu Feng is, on the road of exploring scientific truth, practice is still the only criterion for testing the truth!
Leaving the conference room and returning to the dormitory, Liu Feng couldn't even sleep, so he spread out his notebook, and concentrated on sorting out the data in his mind into a specific experimental plan, and meticulously deduced it.
He had to be foolproof!
It's just that knowing the answer but having to deduce the specific steps is like when I was a child learning mathematics, I could see the answer at a glance, but the teacher had to let people write out the answer step by step, which was absolutely painful for a 'smart person'.
However, Liu Feng has long been accustomed to this approach.
One step ahead is a genius, and ten steps ahead can only be a madman!
All he has to do now is to get himself one step closer to genius......