Senior Brother Yan is indeed not wrong, after the experiment officially began, the emitted particle beam was basically stable below 5GeV. The signal captured by the ATLAS detector is basically concentrated in the energy region of 1-10 GeV.

Occasionally, there are one or two exceptions that appear outside the upper limit of the 10GeV range, but they don't deviate too far.

In such a case, 750 GeV data will naturally not be generated.

But such a result can't convince Lu Zhou, who firmly believes that the 750GeV energy area must have something.

The experiment lasted a whole day.

It was about twelve o'clock in the morning, and cheers erupted in the CERN headquarters dozens of kilometers away.

Judging from the data fed back by each detector, the confidence level of the pentaquark state particles captured in the eye has exceeded 5sigma, and all the evidence indicates that the pentaquark state particles have been discovered!

While everyone had expected this, the speculation was far less exciting than when it actually happened.

Generally speaking, quarks that are fragmented in a collider are either "quark-antiquark" pairs similar to K mesons and π mesons, or "triquark states" such as protons and neutrons. As for the monoquark state, the monoquark state particles are not allowed to exist because the quark is bound by the strong force of the color charge.

However, quantum chromodynamics does not prohibit the existence of singular states such as "four-quark states" and "five-quark states".

For so many years, major high-energy physics laboratories have been searching for these "singular states" on various colliders.

If these maverick little guys don't get discovered, it proves that there may be a hole in our Standard Model and that quantum chromodynamics may be incorrect.

However, once these singular states are discovered, it will be a great boost to the confidence of the entire theoretical physics community!

As CERN always practiced, almost the day after the experiment ended, he eagerly sent an invitation to the reporters waiting in Geneva and held a high-profile press conference.

Standing in front of the media reporters, the spokesperson of CERN announced the news in an excited tone.

“…… We succeeded in discovering the five-quark particle, which is another great victory for the Standard Model! Once again, we are convinced that we have chosen the right path! ”

If nothing else, the discovery of the five-quark state particle will be the most significant research achievement in physics this year, overshadowing all other research results.

The CERN press conference ended with a wave of applause, followed by a large number of media reports on the discovery.

But for the physicists gathered here, the real work has only just begun.

In order to better reveal the physical properties of pentaquark particles, the LHCb international cooperation group assigned the task of assigning researchers from various countries to conduct a full-spectrum analysis of the newly discovered particles.

After the task was assigned, the research team on Academician Lu's side also devoted themselves to this work.

However, compared with the data of the B1 division of the "joint test" with Syracuse University, this time the task is not so tight in terms of schedule, and it can even be said to be quite relaxed.

Later, Lu Zhou asked Senior Brother Yan to find out that this thing was different from the previous paper, and every paper that did the "full-spectrum analysis" this time would be signed by all scientific researchers.

There are too many co-authors, the gold content of the paper is infinitely weakened, and everyone is doing their own thing, there is no topic collision, and there is no need to compare with anyone, so naturally no one is so anxious. Based on the amount of work assigned to each team, one month is more than enough time to get everything done.

Sitting in the conference room of the hotel, Lu Zhou said to Senior Brother Yan, who was also sitting next to him, in a casual tone, while typing a draft on A4 paper.

"Thousands of signatures...... The thought of having more than a thousand names on my dissertation, or even more than half of them, in front of me, diminished my enthusiasm for the job by more than a half. ”

"That's what it takes to help CERN, it's such a place where you can get a lot of work, so I don't recommend you here. Although our work is equally great, the Nobel Prize cannot be awarded to everyone who has witnessed history......" Senior Brother Yan yawned, put down the pen and stretched, "Do you want to play billiards at night?" ”

Lu Zhou thought for a while, shook his head and said, "No, I have something to do with Professor Greer, and I will go to the office on the R2 floor in a while." ”

During his last site visit, Professor Greer promised him that he would take the time to sort out the data collected during the test channel when the experiment was over.

Just now, he received an email from Greer, saying that the data had been sorted out, and asked him to take a USB flash drive to the office.

Although it won't take long to copy the data, Lu Zhou is ready to use his leisure time in the evening to study this data well.

After all, I have to be busy with Academician Lu's projects during the day, and the only things I can use are weekends and evenings.

Senior Brother Yan saw through Lu Zhou's thoughts at a glance: "Don't tell me it's the last time." ”

Lu Zhou: "You guessed it." ”

Senior Brother Yan had a defeated expression, sighed and said, "Okay, I admire your persistence...... Although I want to say that you are doing useless work. ”

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Is it useless, how can you know if you don't give it a try?" ”

It can't be helped, other people are like that, it's the same when you're doing math, it's the same when you're doing physics.

He is still interested in the characteristic peaks that appear at 750 GeV.

Although both Brother Yan and Professor Greer said that the flat protrusion could not be called a characteristic peak, it was most likely just a two-photon signal, and even a collision might not have occurred. Because the energy it carries is so exaggerated, even five times that of the Higgs particle!

However, Lu Zhou doesn't think so.

The 750GeV number may seem a bit "heavier", but that doesn't mean that there isn't a possibility.

Delving into the frontier fields of any discipline requires imagination, and the bulge of this suspected characteristic peak, in Lu Zhou's view, already has room for imagination.

Even in the eyes of two experts who specialize in quantum chromodynamics, this phenomenon violates "common sense" and has no research value. However, the common sense of physics is not applicable to a mathematically born researcher like Lu Zhou.

What did quantum chromodynamics develop?

Isn't it just by subverting "common sense"?

It doesn't matter if it's wrong, it's an attempt with no cost of failure.

After dinner, Lu Zhou stopped by the R2 floor, where Professor Greer was waiting for him in his office.

"The data you want is all in this USB flash drive, including the data collected on the CMS detector, and I also helped you get a copy. But to be honest, this data is not useful at all, we have only done the collision in the 1TeV energy region for less than an hour, and this little thing has not come up with any useful experimental results other than to test the sensitivity of the individual detectors. ”

Lu Zhou: "Thank you...... I'm just trying to satisfy my curiosity, whether it's useful or not. ”

"Curious?" Professor Grell smiled and gave him an encouraging look, "Then I'll wish you good luck." ”