The British newspaper The Guardian was the first to report the news.

The journalist who wrote the article stated the discovery in amazed words.

“…… CERN caught an anomalous signal in the experiment, and experts said that this could be a major clue to the discovery of supersymmetrical particles, and what is unbelievable is that the discoverer of this clue is actually an intern from China! ”

A mysterious force from the East seems to be influencing the Hadron Collider.

Immediately afterwards, some media dug up the identity of the intern.

This digging doesn't matter, many people are taken aback.

For example, in the latest edition of the German "Focus Weekly", the report about the identity of this intern completely detonated people's attention.

“…… The intern who discovered the 750GeV characteristic peak in the CERN collider experiment is a master's student at Jinling University and a member of the LHCb Huaguo co-housing. And his achievements are not only in the field of physics, just earlier this year, at the Princeton academic conference, he won the honor of best young speaker, and the content of the winning report is proof of the twin prime conjecture! ”

“…… Our reporter interviewed Mr. Francis, president of the Federal Mathematical Society, and Edward Witten, a Fields Medal winner. Mr. Francis described him as a young scholar with excellent thinking and innovation. Edward Witten's assessment was even more surprising, as he thought he could become the first Chinese scholar to win the Fields Medal. ”

Originally, the news of 750GeV did not cause a wide range of sensations, but only circulated in the small circle of high-energy physics. But because of this report from "Focus Weekly", the heat of the news was pushed to a peak all of a sudden.

"Hidden" the clues of the bigwigs and was discovered by an intern, which in itself is enough to surprise people. And the identity of this intern is not "physics", but mathematics, which is even more shocking.

The news has not spread to China for the time being, but it has already sparked heated discussions on social media abroad.

A campus forum for an Ivy League university abroad.

[Shet! Originally, I was on vacation, but just yesterday, my tutor called me back to school and told me that I had a new project, and now I started working on it...... It's insane. 】

[This is a good thing, my graduation thesis has been settled :)]

[That's not good, what if CERN confirms that signal next month?] 】

[Impossible, with the efficiency of the Hadron Collider, CERN may not be able to figure out what that thing is at the year-end summary meeting.] And I, before the end of the year, can still have another article :)]

A North American international student forum.

[Terrible, the Fields Medal can't satisfy him!] It's all going to the Nobel Prize......]

[The Nobel Prize is still far away, but it is also very strong. Theoretical physics is the most difficult to produce results, and although this discovery is not a major research achievement, it solves the problem of graduating at least 100 PhDs in the field of high-energy physics...... That's still less to say. 】

[It's true that there is less, the number of new papers in the field of high-energy physics on ARXIV has exploded in the past few days, not only graduation theses, but even many professors are betting on it. 】

[Looking up to the big guy, when I get a master's degree, can I be so cheating? ] 】

[Wake up, others were still undergraduates at the beginning of this year, and they were already so awesome at that time. 】

【…… Give to kneel. 】

……

After the "Focus Weekly" report about the identity of the intern came out, the major media reprinted the report.

Although many media have excavated Lu Zhou's identity and background to a certain extent, the first to interview the intern himself was "Nature Weekly".

Now, of course, he is no longer an intern, but a full-fledged researcher in a CERN partner country.

Noon on August 2.

In a café in Geneva, Professor Greer, who drove Lu Zhou here, introduced him to the female reporter of Nature Weekly.

"This is Lady Belina, a graduate of Oxford University," Professor Greer said, looking at Lady Belinda, and continued, "and this is the Lu Zhou I told you. ”

The two should know each other.

But I don't know if it's Lu Zhou's illusion, I always feel that the atmosphere of the two meeting is a little subtle awkward.

The source of embarrassment seems to be from Professor Greer's side, but on the other hand, Ms. Belina's side has a natural smile on her face.

"Hello, Ms. Belinda." Lu Zhou took the initiative to stretch out his right hand.

"Hello, nice to meet you too," Belinda smiled as she shook her hand away, "The interview might take up a little time, can we start now?" ”

"Of course." Lu Zhou smiled and said generously, "I hope my answer will satisfy your curiosity." ”

After all, it is the name of an old academic journal, and the same mother's "Nature Weekly" still has a bit of scientific rigor, at least it will not learn from the "Daily Mail" next door, and play those headline party news such as "Chinese scientists discover supersymmetric particles" and "Hadron collider discovers mysterious phenomena".

And this Ms. Belinda is also worthy of being a top student who graduated from Oxford University, and the questions she asks are more professional.

Like, the first question.

"How did you find the characteristic peaks in the 750GeV energy region?"

"Because of an accident?" Lu Zhou smiled and said in a casual tone, "Although my colleagues think that the case that appeared in the 750GeV may be an accident, it is a bit too coincidental that this accident appeared on the ATLAS and CMS detectors at the same time. So I asked Professor Greer to find the LHC collision record in 12 or 13 years when I was looking for the Higgs particle, and I found something interesting. ”

"Characteristic peak of 750 GeV?"

"No, but it's pretty much the same," Lu Zhou shrugged, "and with a limited sample, the information we can get is quite limited. Therefore, I tried to prove from the perspective of probability that when the sample size accumulates to a certain level, there may be a characteristic peak in the statistical model in the prediction at 750 GeV...... When this was possible enough, CERN had a reason to start the experiment. As for this characteristic peak, it was found by the collider, but it was not me. ”

Ms. Belinda smiled kindly, jotted down the sentence in her notebook, and continued.

"I've noticed that you use a lot of uncertain words, am I used to it alone, or is it because of the rigor of physics?"

Lu Zhou nodded: "Of course it's the latter, because even now, we can't confirm what it is." ”

Belinda: "What do you think that particle might be?" ”

"I want it to be a supersymmetric particle, and if it is, the biggest problem we face will be solved. But...... It's just my personal wish, and many times things don't go as smoothly as we expected," Lu Zhou thought for a moment and continued, "If I were to speculate, I would prefer to believe that it might be something we don't understand...... For example, dark matter. ”

Belina's mouth opened wide in surprise and asked, "Surprising speculation...... But why? ”

"Because the signal is too unstable," Lu Zhou smiled, and continued, "Although the Hadron Collider experiment itself is the accumulation of countless low-probability collision events, the appearance of this signal presents a ...... It is difficult to explain the situation with existing theories. ”

"Pessimistically, this may just be a two-photon signal."

"But optimistically, it could also mean 'new physics.'"