Chapter 249: New Discovery
In 1990, CERN crews seized 115 GeV of the Higgs boson via the electron-positron collider LEP, but their statistics at the time were not sufficient to make any definitive inferences.
Since then, other collider laboratories have also found traces of the Higgs boson, such as the Tevatron accelerator of the world's largest collider before the LHC, which almost discovered this mysterious particle, but it was not unanimously recognized by the physics community because the degree of certainty of this result did not meet a sufficient standard.
Could it be that the first official test of the LHC was declared a success? Several core personnel of the laboratory gathered around Lu Qiujian and Dietrich, holding their breath and looking at the data on the screen with full attention.
Lu Qiujian took the keyboard and mouse, and began to pour this data into the special software for calculation, charged particles will be deflected in the magnetic field, physicists determine the properties of a particle, according to this principle. The type of particle is determined by the direction of deflection, and then its kinetic energy is determined by the radius of deflection or energy storage.
Soon the data was converted into charts that were easier to understand, and it was easy to see that the distribution of data points on the graph seemed to deviate from the normal range.
"Is this what this is?" Dietrich struggled to squeeze out a few words.
"Gentlemen, your takeaway has arrived!" Just as Lu Qiujian was about to answer, the silence of the laboratory was broken by a knock on the door of the logistics staff.
All the staff members who were lost in thought were interrupted in an instant, and they all turned their heads to glare at the logistician who had woken them up from their dreams.
"Gentlemen, the takeaway you just ordered has arrived, do you need me to bring it in for you?" he didn't understand the consequences of his actions just now, and asked with trembling as these people watched.
"I don't want any takeaways right now!Now please close the door from the outside!" Dietrich finally held back his anger and shouted to his feet.
"Dietrich, calm down!" Lu Qiujian patted him on the shoulder and pressed him back into his seat. Smiling and saying to the hapless logistician, "I'm sorry, we just discovered something amazing, so Dietrich went to get a little more emotional, I'm afraid we still have a lot of work to do, I'm afraid we can't afford to eat now!"
"Okay, okay, I'll leave right away!" he finally realized that he had come at the wrong time, and quickly exited the lab and helped them close the door to the lab.
"Alright, let's move on to the analysis!" Lu Qiujian began the follow-up process, and Dietrich's heart was about to jump out of his throat now. If this set of data is really evidence of the existence of the Higgs boson, then wouldn't he be the first person in the world to discover the Higgs boson? This is an achievement that can go down in history! Of course, provided that other institutions have not discovered and noticed similar data before.
Dietrich turned his head and was about to curse, but when the first word just popped out, he could already see who it was, and quickly swallowed the rest of the words.
"I heard you've found something interesting?" Professor Schiff ignored Dietrich and walked straight to the computer, who was not even wearing a coat and had apparently hurried from his office as soon as he heard the news, so he didn't care about Dietrich.
"Yes. A very special set of data has been discovered, data that has never appeared in previous experiments!" The only estimation in this laboratory that can remain calm is Lu Qiujian.
"Analyze as soon as possible!" Xu Fute patted Lu Qiujian on the shoulder, and then looked at the crowd next to him, "What are you doing? Go back to your seats! Are you all done?" He knew that under such circumstances, ordinary people could not calm down and carry out their work. He wants to create a better working environment for Lu Qiujian.
Lu Qiujian didn't care if anyone was staring at him behind him, and of course he had no intention of correcting Professor Xufut, and soon devoted himself to the in-depth analysis of this set of data, although the other staff members all returned to their seats under Professor Xufut's scolding, but looking at their appearance, they couldn't concentrate on their work at all. Every few tens of seconds, he would turn his head and glance at Lu Qiujian's computer screen, trying to find out if he had come up with a result.
Since Professor Xuft drove away others, of course, it was not good for him to take Lu Qiujian behind him to watch, and he wanted to drink a cup of coffee by himself to calm down. But when he poured the coffee, he involuntarily turned his head in the direction of Lu Qiujian, and he didn't even notice that the coffee was spilling out of the cup.
As for Dietrich, it was even more tragic, his computer was occupied by Lu Qiujian, and he was extremely uncomfortable staying next to him, and finally simply came to Lu Qiujian's computer and sat down, but Lu Qiujian's computer did not dare to move around, for fear that it would mess up the work that Lu Qiujian had just carried out.
I don't know how long it took, Lu Qiujian finally raised his head from the screen, "The results are out!"
Bang, poof, bang, the laboratory suddenly turned from quiet to noisy, everyone reunited behind Lu Qiujian, Professor Schiff pushed his glasses and asked, "What is the result? Did you find the Higgs boson?"
"Not really!" Lu Qiujian shook his head.
"Hey!" A sigh rang out in the lab, and the disappointment that could not be concealed was on everyone's face, although they had known that the Higgs boson was not so easy to detect, but since Dietrich had discovered the set of anomalous data just now, they had not waited for a miracle to come with great anticipation, but now the dream was shattered.
"However, from this set of data, we can indeed see the traces of some particles that have not yet been determined!" Lu Qiujian's words pulled their hopes back, "From the data obtained so far, it can be seen that the characteristics of this particle are very close to the Higgs boson!"
In more understandable terms, Lu Qiujian is now equivalent to finding an unfamiliar footprint at the murder scene, which is very close to the highest one on the police suspect list, although it is not certain that he is the murderer, but there is no doubt that this discovery makes people see the hope of success in solving the case.
"Wow!" the lab immediately turned from disappointment to jubilation, meaning they were closer to the truth.
Professor Schiff approached the computer and carefully reviewed it, then calmly said, "Send it to CERN to see if other collaborators have found similar data!" (To be continued.) )