Huaguo, Beijing.

Positron Collider Laboratory, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

"Are you sure there are no problems?"

Following Liu Feng into the gate of the research institute, Zhang Qin looked around with some curiosity.

Although nominally he is the commander-in-chief of the antimatter project, in fact, except for providing funds to Liu Feng and coordinating various cooperative units, all the work related to antimatter research is operated by Liu Feng, and he, which is equivalent to becoming Liu Feng's logistics nanny, has never had the opportunity to come to this laboratory.

Before that, he heard that Liu Feng was going to transform the Beijing Positron Collider, and he thought that he would have to wait at least a few months, but he didn't expect that in less than two months, this guy would complete the transformation, which really caught him off guard.

Moreover, it is said that this guy is about to make 1mg of antimatter this time?

Although he is not from a technical background, since he has accepted antimatter engineering, how can he have no understanding of antimatter? 1mg antimatter, if it accidentally blows up, this research institute will probably have to be removed from now on!

Liu Feng nodded very confidently: "Of course, we have gone through a thorough argument to ensure that there will be no problems." ”

Standing in the courtyard, Zhang Qin looked at the environment of the institute and found that except for the researchers in white coats coming in and out, it was completely different from what he imagined about five steps and one inspection and ten steps and a sentry, and he always felt a little uneasy.

"What about the security here? How come you can't even see the security personnel for such an important experiment?

Liu Feng smiled, stopped Secretary Yu's movements, and explained, "Don't be so nervous. Brother Zhang, Geng Tang's side has already been arranged, and irrelevant people can't get close to here at all, this kind of thing, it's not beautiful if there are too many people. And, do you see there?"

"Where?"

Subconsciously looked towards the place Liu Feng pointed, but Zhang Qin didn't see anything except a knee-high green belt and a few poplar trees.

"Nothing?"

Liu Feng explained: "There, there, and there, there are hidden cameras, and the troops are monitoring them 24 hours a day, so you can't see it." ”

Zhang Qin was stunned and wondered, "Really?"

It stands to reason that this kind of thing is not clear to anyone except the person who guards, how did Liu Feng know?

In the face of the supernatural ability, what can I hide from me? Liu Feng thought secretly in his heart.

nodded and explained: "I also asked Geng Tang about security, and he told me." ”

"That's good," Zhang Qin breathed a sigh of relief and nodded, "Then I'll rest assured." ”

From the gate of the research institute to the inside of the laboratory, the monitoring along the way is basically without dead ends;

In the context of modern high-tech facial recognition technology and big data analysis, plus the necessary manual review, if a stranger lingers here for a long time, he does not even have to be close to the research institute, someone will come to talk to him.

This level of security has only been introduced in the last month.

After all, Huaguo has made such a big move, claiming to invest 100 billion yuan in controlled nuclear fusion, and how can "Professor Liu", as the key figure in it, not attract the attention of other organizations?

What's more, on the side of country M, Comrade Ao Guanhai's strategy of returning to the Asia-Pacific region has directly listed China as its number one competitor, and relations between the two countries have become more and more tense recently; with the interest shown by country M in controlled fusion technology, people have reason to believe that they may have some crooked ideas, and obtaining relevant technical information is only one of them, and trying to sabotage the progress of the other side is not something that will not be considered.

In any case, safety is paramount.

Of course, with Geng Tang and the professionals in their organization taking care of him, Liu Feng didn't need to worry at all.

With Zhang Bu~ Chang and Secretary Yu through the access control at the gate of the laboratory, the three of them went straight to the control center on the 5th floor.

By the time the three arrived, the researchers in the lab had basically arrived.

After a week of debugging and running-in, the new positron collider device has met the experimental requirements.

Although there are many new devices in it, such as ultra-high-energy laser emission systems, Pengning ion trap devices, etc., there are so many academicians and experts to check them, plus there are simulation experiments with Liu Feng's ability, there should be no big problem.

Taking 10,000 steps back, even if there are some accidents, it can only be that some conditions are deviated, and the actual value does not reach the set value, which is also very valuable experimental data, but the safety issue can be absolutely guaranteed.

At this point, Liu Feng will not joke with it.

Seeing Liu Feng and Zhang Qin appear at the door of the laboratory, Academician Wang Yifang, who was in charge of the final commissioning of the device and on-site coordination and command, came over and briefly introduced the situation.

"All the preparations are in place and we are ready to start experimenting. ”

Zhang Qin: "Thank you for your hard work, Academician Wang. ”

Academician Wang shook his head: "Where you have worked hard, you need to take care of it inside and out, please sit down, Secretary Yu, you can also sit." ”

Liu Feng: "Boss, what did the State Grid in Beijing say, did anyone pass?"

Academician Wang nodded: "This kind of thing has been communicated a long time ago, and there are people on our side and the security department to supervise, so there should be no problems." ”

To produce enough antimatter, the consumption of energy is naturally not a small amount, and it is not a matter of tens of thousands of kilowatt-hours of electricity, Liu Feng estimates that in a day, the amount of electricity consumed is at least 100,000 kilowatt-hours as the starting level!

Therefore, as early as half a month ago, the research institute communicated with the State Grid and brought two special lines to the laboratory, yes, not one, but two!

After all, if there is a power outage during the production process, the problem will be great!

Without the restraint of a strong magnetic field, the antimatter produced at that time caused an explosion, which really became a life-threatening talisman, and no one could afford such a loss.

Even though the odds of such a thing happening are as small as 1 in 10 million, no one dares to take it lightly.

Liu Feng nodded: "Since there is no problem, let's get ready to start." ”

Academician Wang also nodded.

Without any superfluous communication, the two immediately returned to their respective jobs.

Not far away, Academician Tian Xuelin took a deep breath.

Looking at the experiment that was about to begin, his whole body was almost trembling with nervousness.

The "100 billion" scientific research project (yes, Liu Feng's internal propaganda is that 100 billion funds have been invested in it, and you can spend it casually!), he has never participated in such a major project.

Moreover, this is antimatter, Professor Liu's guy is also black-hearted, and he set the goal to 1mg for the first time!

If the device fails at that time, will he be held responsible?

Or in case the storage effect of the penning ion trap cannot be achieved, the experiment will be wasted, and even a major accident will occur......

Although these were impossible things, it still made him feel numb.

Glancing in the direction of Liu Feng, Academician Tian Xuelin fell into deep thought.

If you feel this tension just by standing here, what kind of pressure should this 19-year-old be under?

At the age of 19, I always feel that just thinking about it makes me feel incredible.

What was he doing when he was 19 years old?

Everyone has become the de facto commander of the 100 billion project!

In short, there is no comparison.

Not only Tian Xuelin, but also those present, who is not nervous?

Looking at the staff who were busy in the laboratory, Zhang Qin, who was sitting behind Liu Feng and the others, swallowed his saliva and pulled Liu Feng's shirt: "Are you sure there is no problem?"

"Don't worry," Liu Feng took a deep breath, nodded his head, and said expressionlessly, "If this experiment is successful, all the next experiments will be smooth, just waiting for the completion of the Super Collider." ”

Zhang Bu~ Chang also took a deep breath, and said with a complicated face: "I really don't know why you are in such a hurry, we have enough time to engage in this project, although it is important to seek speed while maintaining stability, but in any case, remember not to rush." ”

In two months, you can come up with phased results, and only this one can do it!

"Well," Liu Feng nodded, "I see." ”

Zhang Qin shook his head and didn't bother anymore.

He knew that Liu Feng was a very assertive person, and as long as he decided something, no one could stop it.

What's more, for scientific research, he is really just a layman, and Liu Feng's sentence "I know" is mostly just a polite perfunctory.

However, there was no other way for him to do it now than to believe.

After all, it's nothing to help beat the side drum outside of research, but he really can't give any advice in specific experiments, and all he can do now is pray.

On the large screen, the real-time data of various instruments is reflected.

Except for the sound of normal data reports from time to time, there was no other noise coming out, and this time, there was no camera recording everything, let alone any reporters.

Taking a deep breath, Liu Feng looked at the table below and picked up the intercom microphone in the central control room.

"Attention of all units, attention of all units, check the working status of the instrument for the last time, and report in time!"

……

"The injector is working fine!"

"The transport line is working fine!"

"The storage ring is working fine!"

"The separator is working fine!"

"The high-energy laser is working fine!"

"Penning ion trap is working fine!"

"The Beijing spectrometer is working normally!"

……

The final confirmation of the experiment was underway, and with the normal reports of the staff, Liu Feng's heart also flew with these voices.

I recalled the first time I followed Professor Ding to do a collision experiment, I could only stand next to Professor Ding, watching his old man calmly give orders, but I was like a tense string, my whole body trembled with nervousness;

Time has passed, and in just a few months, he has already stood in the position where Professor Ding stood before, and has become the one who gives orders, and his heart is as calm as a clear spring, and there are no waves in the ancient well......

The circumstances of life are probably no more bizarre than this!

Finally, after receiving a report on the normal work of each group and unit, he ordered in a deep voice.

"The experiment begins!"

Then, almost at the same time as his voice fell, tons of liquid helium began to be injected into the collider's superconducting magnets, soaking the circles of superconducting material wires that surrounded the outer orbit of the annular accelerator.

After a while, with the sharp drop in the resistivity of the superconducting coil, a huge current began to pass through the coil, generating a closed loop strong magnetic field, and the protons generated by the proton gun, accelerated by the super magnetic field of the accelerator, were input into the storage ring, and then in the storage ring, the protons moved, swirled, and accelerated at a speed close to the speed of light above tens of billions of electron volts, and finally crashed into the fixed metal target with tens of millions of times per second.

The outer electrons began to fall off, a large number of charged protons were formed, and at the same time, some antiproton fragments were produced - at this stage, a small amount of antimatter has been generated, which is sent into the Penning ion trap through the splitter and reducer under the drainage of a strong magnetic field.

The remaining large number of charged protons returned to the cyclotron, and after the accelerator accelerated again, they were diverted by the shunt to another channel.

At this time, in the ultra-high-energy laser emitting device, a high-energy laser is illuminated instantly, and finally collides with the high-energy charged protons returning to the cyclotron with hundreds of millions of times per second, and the charged nature of the proton center is immediately transformed - at this stage, most of the antimatter will be generated at this moment, and then through the separator and reducer, it will be sent into the Penning ion trap......

Of course, at this time, the Beijing spectrometer also came into play, tens of thousands of "eyes" opened, like the compound eyes of flies, real-time observation of the secondary particles produced by the collision of each stage, and all the experimental data were transmitted to the computer by themselves, of course, the focus of attention is naturally the energy region where the antimatter is located.

Instruments at all levels are running stably.

A huge set of wires moved from the State Grid is constantly transmitting energy to each group of instruments in the laboratory, while another set of wires, which are moved from substations in different regions, are also on standby in real time, and if the next group is powered off, it will automatically switch to this group to supply electricity.

At this moment, everyone's fists couldn't help but clench.

In an instant, the white light in the lens flickered, and the picture on the big screen was even more snowflake-white.

At this time, in the center of the powerful magnetic field of the Penning ion trap, the most terrifying energy in this world is brewing.

Although this process proceeds so slowly, 1mg of antimatter will have to collide all day......

"The injector is working fine!"

"The line is working properly!"

"The storage ring is working properly!"

"The separator is working fine!"

"The high-energy laser is working fine!"

"The Penning ion trap is working properly!"

Everyone clenched their fists until ......

"Jingcheng spectrometer - antiproton state detected, and the mass of antiparticles generated per second: 0.01388 micrograms, meets the design requirements!"

With the moment the data of 0.01388 micrograms of the Beijing spectrometer was conveyed back, in the laboratory,

Liu Feng held his breath,

Academician Wang held his breath,

Academician Tian Xuelin's eyes widened,

Zhang Qin, Secretary Yu...... Everyone present was moved by their expressions, and their faces were full of joy, and some even stood up excitedly!

Staring at the experimental data, the researcher in charge of broadcasting the Beijing spectrometer was even more excited and trembling: "The antimatter entering the Pengning ion trap is stable at 0.01388 micrograms per second! The antimatter flowing out of the Pengning ion trap is temporarily 0, and the antimatter obtained from the collision meets the design requirements; the instantaneous storage capacity of the Pengning ion trap meets the design requirements!"

"It worked!"

"The experiment was successful!"

Although the final experimental results can only be considered successful when the reaction lasts until the end of the reaction, after all, the generation time of 1mg of antimatter is about 20 hours, and the storage time of the Penning ion trap must reach at least 24 hours before it can be considered a preliminary success, but at this moment, everyone still can't stop being excited!

If there are no accidents, the final result of the experiment will be a success as expected!

Because, this is Professor Liu's experiment!

therefore

At this moment, laughter!

At this moment, the applause was thunderous!

In the experimental hall, everyone cast admiring glances at that one

- He, did it!