Chapter 161: Countdown to the Experiment
The Positron Collider works by bombarding a stationary target with high-energy particles accelerated by an accelerator.
Just like in a traffic accident, when a car hits a car parked on the side of the road, a large part of the energy of the collision is consumed to make the car parked on the side of the road rush forward, and the force of the collision is not strong enough, and if two high-speed cars traveling in the opposite direction collide head-on, the force of the collision is many times greater.
When the two collide with each other, a variety of particles are formed, but the Jingcheng spectrometer is a detector that captures and examines these particles on this basis.
Professor Ding Zhaozhong first tested this detector.
After all, the collision results of the positron collider have already been placed there, and as for whether it can be 'seen', it all depends on the credit of the detector, so the Beijing spectrometer is definitely the top priority related to the success or failure of the experiment!
Speaking of which, this is the first time that Professor Ding Zhaozhong has come here to do experiments since the transformation of the Beijing spectrometer was completed this year, and it is also the first formal experiment conducted by the laboratory!
"Teacher, let me introduce you. This Beijing spectrometer is a large-scale particle detector designed and developed by our own country, which is composed of a variety of sub-detectors, about 6 meters long, 7 meters high and 7 meters wide, and weighs more than 500 tons! This behemoth embodies the painstaking efforts of China's high-energy physicists for 10 years, and its detection ability has been increased by 100 times compared with before the transformation, and its ability to obtain data is two orders of magnitude higher! Therefore, this time we are also very confident that we can detect the kind of new particles you want!
Academician Wang Yifang proudly introduced the new Beijing spectrometer in front of Professor Ding Zhaozhong.
"Good, very good! The physicists of the motherland are all good!"
Professor Ding Zhaozhong was also very excited, and he was also sincerely proud of the motherland's ability to achieve such dazzling achievements! Although he grew up in country M since he was a child, as a Chinese, his roots are still in China; the motherland is getting richer and stronger, and only then can these wanderers who are abroad really hold their heads high and hold their heads high!
And this Beijing spectrometer, if it is really as Wang Yifang said, the performance has increased by 100 times, it is definitely the world's unique detection equipment, even the European detector, compared with this Beijing spectrometer, it is only its own merits.
Therefore, the physicists of Huaguo definitely have the capital to be proud, and he Ding Zhaozhong also feels honored!
"Yifang, you have also put a lot of effort into this! Otherwise, you would not have been so quiet in the past two years!"
Professor Ding patted Academician Wang's shoulder and said with emotion.
Speaking of which, his student's talent in high-energy physics was also what he had seen with his own eyes.
Especially in the two years that he led him, Wang Yifang was basically able to publish a very fruitful paper every month, but in the past two years, this guy seems to have been quiet in the physics world, and there is no movement at all.
"The old ancestor said well, if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools! If we don't get the new spectrometer right, relying only on the previous spectrometer, and then trying to make some discoveries in the collision experiment, it will be almost impossible. Being able to make a new spectrometer is nothing compared to a few inconsequential papers!"
Wang Yifang was also very emotional.
This Beijing spectrum instrument did consume a lot of his hard work.
It's just that as long as the domestic research on high-energy physics can get better and better, and can catch up with the footsteps of the European and American powers, or even surpass them, even if he is allowed to publish a hundred or a thousand papers less, it will be completely worth it.
"Report director, all indicators of the Beijing spectrometer are operating normally, and the detection work can be carried out at any time!"
The staff responsible for the real-time monitoring of the detector reported in real time.
"Okay, keep it up!"
Wang Yifang nodded and commanded.
"Teacher, do you have any other instructions?"
Professor Ding Zhaozhong shook his head: "With you conscientious people here, what else do I have to worry about, let's go to the next place!"
So, after inspecting the detector, Professor Ding Zhaozhong went to the generating device of the positron collider and tested it from beginning to end; as the director of the Institute of High Energy Physics, Academician Wang also had a lot to do, and this experiment naturally could not be followed by the whole process.
Therefore, after leading Professor Ding to the collider laboratory, he gave a few words to the staff here, and his old man left in a hurry, and Liu Feng followed Professor Ding the whole time; as for Senior Brother Wen, he was long gone, after all, in his words, he could figure out the structural parts of the instrument with his eyes closed, and he could spit it out if he was so 'intimate' contacted!
In short, for Liu Feng, a rookie, Professor Ding Zhaozhong did not have the slightest suspicion or impatience.
The old man took the trouble to tell him the operation methods and principles of these instruments throughout the whole process, and what needs to be paid attention to was explained very clearly.
"The Positron Collider Collider is mainly composed of an injector, a transport line, and a storage ring. Therefore, the so-called injector is actually the injection equipment of high-energy positrons and negative electrons, the transport line is the line that transports these electrons into the storage ring, and the storage ring is the place where the energy input of the positrons and negatives is located. ”
"The injector and the transport line, we just check it in advance, it's not where we need to focus on it, only this set of ring-shaped storage rings, 202 meters long, can provide 2 billion to 5 billion electron volts of energy to the positron and negative electrons, we need to pay attention to it at all times, once there is any abnormality, it is devastating!"
"There are 6 important points that we need to pay attention to......"
Professor Ding Zhaozhong spoke very carefully, Liu Feng listened and nodded constantly, if there was anything he didn't understand, he would also raise it directly, and Professor Ding was not the slightest impatient, until Liu Feng really understood these questions, he would not carry out the next place of testing.
The reason why they need to be so tireless and careful testing is because these high-end instruments often have hundreds of millions of billions of funds, and the slightest mistake will cause a big loss!
Even if there is a special staff responsible for monitoring at any time, as the main operator of the experiment, you must also know these things by heart, after all, not only the instrument is particularly expensive, but every time the experimenter conducts a collision experiment, it needs to spend tens of millions of dollars!
It is said that when the cannon sounds, there are 10,000 taels of gold, and if the 'cannon' of the collider sounds, then at least there must be tens of thousands of taels!
Therefore, it is not for them not to pay attention to it, and for why they dare not take it lightly in the slightest.
Speaking of which, this positron collider is about the same age as Liu Feng, and it has been used for nearly 20 years since it was built.
20 years, for an instrument, it is definitely a period of age, but in Liu Feng's view, these instruments do not look old at all, but completely like they have just left the factory, and every screw is blooming with a dazzling metallic luster!
Of course, to be honest, in fact, the core components of this collider are all produced by the Western powers...... Huaguo still has a long way to go!
Liu Feng followed behind Professor Ding Zhaozhong, touched and looked at these experimental parts, followed the whole process, and even controlled several instruments by himself under the guidance of Professor Ding.
Therefore, not to mention knowing these parts well, but at least what important joints need to be paid attention to, Liu Feng clearly remembered! For him, these things are definitely knowledge that cannot be brushed in books, so he cherishes this opportunity very much......
One taught carefully, the other listened carefully, and soon, several people finished testing these instruments, and the experiment entered the countdown link.