Chapter 263 The Nobel Prize is no longer in suspense 15/34
"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to CERN!" Lu Qiujian slowly walked to the podium, his gaze swept over the crowd in the audience, and many famous figures in the physics world sat on their chairs, listening to his speech with bated breath.
There are fourteen Nobel laureates in physics, six Wolf laureates in physics, four Planck Medal winners, and oh yes, maybe it won't be long before the number of Nobel laureates rises to seventeen!
The hall had already been tightly crowded, and some of the staff who came late could only sit on the ground, and they all stretched their necks to look at Lu Qiujian on the stage.
"Today, here and now, I will announce a great, landmark discovery on behalf of CERN!" Lu Qiujian retracted his gaze, and immediately cut to the main topic of the speech, and then the screen behind him showed the title of the speech, "Analysis and Explanation of Several Data in this LHC Experiment".
"Before I make the official report, I would like to say a few words about the history of physics. "In 1967, Weinberg published a paper pointing out that all objects are composed of two basic and indivisible particles, leptons and quarks, and tried to unify the three interaction forces in nature except gravity - electromagnetic interaction force, strong interaction force and weak interaction force. ”
"The Standard Model established by Professor Weinberg is as ambitious as its name suggests, meaning that everything we see with the naked eye, no matter how complex and diverse, is built from a handful of elementary particles that interact according to equally simple laws. Speaking of this, Lu Qiujian shrugged, "It's a pity that Professor Weinberg's paper hasn't received a single citation in the three years since it was published. It was not until the predicted 'neutral flow' was first confirmed by experiments that the model was taken seriously by the academic community. ”
Sixty of the 61 elementary particles it predicted have been successfully discovered, and the remaining one is the Higgs boson. But this slip through the net is precisely the foundation of the skyscraper of the Standard Model. ”
"Because the Standard Model is built with canonical symmetry, according to this symmetry. Some elementary particles cannot have mass of their own, otherwise the whole model cannot be unified. "Hearing this, the physicists in the audience turned their eyes from Weinberg to Higgs," Professor Higgs said, "Professor Higgs proposed that at the beginning of the universe, the fields produced by Higgs bosons interacted with elementary particles to give them mass. ”
"Professor Higgs's theory saved the physics world, allowing us to understand why the universe is both made up of particles with mass and at the same time beautifully symmetrical. We believe that the Higgs boson is an indispensable link in the origin of mass in the vast universe. ”
"Of course, the great significance of the Higgs mechanism is not only these, but also the QCD mass generation mechanism, together with the spatio-temporal dynamics proposed by Mr. Einstein and the quantum gauge field completed by Mr. Yang Zhenning and Mr. Mills, have become the three basic pillars of the dynamics model supporting matter and interactions......"
Although in the lecture hall except for Feng Hongqi. The others could memorize all this knowledge that Lu Qiujian had told them, but at this moment they were all listening attentively, like elementary school students listening carefully to a class, because it was one thing to understand a certain theory, and it was another thing to witness this theory being confirmed by experiments.
"Okay, let's get down to business!" After explaining the great significance of the Higgs boson, Lu Qiujian turned the courseware to the page where the set of data that was found to prove the existence of the Higgs boson was transformed, "In that experiment not long ago. We tried to raise the energy level of the collision to 8Tev, and this experiment produced some interesting data!"
"Through this chart. We can see ......" Lu Qiujian slowly recounted the information fed back by this chart, and the physicists in the audience exclaimed, when the greatest physical discovery of this century was presented before their eyes, no amount of excitement could seem excessive.
After a lengthy analysis process, Lu Qiujian finally announced the results of this test, "We detected a mass of 125 in the compact muon coil (CMS). 3±0。 A new boson of 6 GeV. The Hypertoroidal Instrument (ATLAS) measured a mass of 126. New boson at 5GeV. These two particles are very similar to the Higgs boson, and while there are still not enough statistically significant criteria to prove the existence of the Higgs boson, my colleagues and I believe that with this discovery, it is only a matter of time before the Higgs boson is finally proven to exist!"
A wave of applause rang out. All the audience stood up and applauded to congratulate the CERN staff as well as Higgs, Engler and Braut, among others.
Higgs burst into tears like a child, a dream come true after forty years of waiting, as he stood up and turned to the back to raise his right hand, clenched his fist and swung it vigorously to celebrate like a player who had just scored the winning goal in stoppage time in a World Cup final.
Holding the table with his right hand, for fear of falling down from being too excited, Engler raised his left hand to express his gratitude to the people around him who congratulated him.
Braut seemed to have forgotten everything, only to grin and make a series of incomprehensible sounds, and then hugged Higgs tightly, and then Engler joined in, and the three of them let their tears flow freely, laughing lovingly.
The flash kept coming on, freezing this moment in the camera, and this photo will also become the front page image of the major media tomorrow.
"The deadline for nominations for the Nobel Prize in Physics has not yet been exceeded, and there will be countless letters with the names of the three of them sent to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences after today!" said Papadopoulos, who was afraid of Feng Hongqi.
"So the three of them have a very good chance of winning this year's Nobel Prize in Physics?" Feng Hongqi's heart began to pound, and it was a rare experience to witness the birth of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
"Not very promising!, but definitely available!" Papadopoulos snapped the shutter quickly, "Professors Higgs, Engler, and Braut have been waiting for nearly forty years, and with the Higgs boson confirmed by this great experiment at CERN, this year's Nobel Prize in Physics is no longer in doubt; )
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