"Actually, this matter is not over, and then NATO heard about it from somewhere, and specially ran over to ask the person if it was true, and how did the person you guess reply?"

"How did you reply?"

Senior Brother Yan imitated Evans's tone and joked: "Of course it's true, but the premise is that you have to build a hadron collider the size of Saturn, build a reactor the size of the moon, and throw all the helium on the surface of the moon into the reactor." If these conditions are enough, maybe a black hole that is commonly understood by ordinary people can be produced? So, let's pay for it first. ”

Lu Zhou smiled.

Although Senior Brother Yan did not continue, he could guess that NATO definitely did not pay in the end.

Build a collider the size of Saturn, I'm afraid it can only be used to threaten aliens.

Soon, the car drove to the entrance of the research center in the North District.

After parking the car in the garage, Senior Brother Yan took Lu Zhou and walked towards the main entrance of the research center.

To make it easier for the layman to understand, in simple terms, a hadron collider can be abstracted into two parts. One is two tubes wrapped in beryllium metal, and the other is a large tube buried outside the two tubes.

Two almost orbits intersect in a flat "X" shape at one point, accelerating in different directions, and the two particle beams "collide" at this junction.

There are about four such "reaction points", and around these reaction points are various detectors that collect the physical phenomena that occur at the moment when the particle beams collide.

Of course, it is not so coincidental that all particles can collide, and the particles that collide may not all be so coincidentally destroy the strong interaction force inside themselves.

So the whole principle of the collider is that the old energy can stuff more particles into a limited pipe, and accumulate collision cases with a small probability over a long period of data accumulation.

This is how the Higgs particle was discovered, which shocked the physics community.

The research center that Senior Brother Yan took Lu Zhou to visit was responsible for observing and collecting collision data. There are also a number of laboratories in the center that collect data from different detectors.

When I walked into one of the labs, I saw a man with a beard and a white lab coat, sitting in front of the laboratory computer and drinking coffee.

Senior Brother Yan stepped forward to greet him and introduced him to Lu Zhou.

"This is Professor Greer, you can see his name in a lot of published papers, he has been working here since the first time I interned here."

"Please don't describe me as so old, I've only been transferred here since '08," Professor Grell smiled kindly and held out his hand to Lu Zhou, "Nice to meet you, Mr. Lu." ”

"Hello, hello." Lu Zhou smiled and shook hands with him.

Originally, he thought that the Mr. Greer that Senior Brother Yan often mentioned would have to be the same age as Academician Lu, but he didn't expect him to look unexpectedly young, just in his forties.

Letting go of his hand, Professor Greer said: "It's a pity that I can't take you around here, the experiment is about to start, I have to keep an eye on these computers, if you came here half a month earlier, I can take you down to have a look, but now several entrances are blocked, and you can't enter without documents." ”

Lu Zhou smiled and replied: "How can I regret it, we are now standing on the special seat of history." ”

"Haha, you must have this idea because you just came," Grell said with a smile, "There are thousands of people sitting in the grand seats here↓ papers completed independently by various research teams, and almost every paper here is signed by thousands of people, or in alphabetical order." When you become a researcher here, you'll be able to experience that feeling. ”

The article is signed by a thousand people, or in alphabetical order

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When you think about it, it's boring to work here.

At this moment, Lu Zhou suddenly noticed that the image on the computer screen was moving, and asked, "Has the experiment started?" ”

"Not yet, it's just a trial phase, and we have to make sure that the channels are clear and that the most critical detectors are functioning properly," said Professor Grell with a smile. So, before we officially look for pentaquark particles, we'll try to run a few laps. What you're looking at now is the photon pairs captured on the ATLAS, and some messy stuff. ”

Looking at the image on the computer screen, Lu Zhou frowned slightly.

With his sensitivity to numbers, looking at the data on the image, he always feels a sense of indescribable déjà vu.

But for a moment, he couldn't remember where he had seen it.

Curious, Lu Zhou asked.

"Why do I feel like this picture looks familiar?"

"Because we're doing the data from the B1 partition, and the data from this partition is collected by our professor Greer. If you sort out this data, you will find it more familiar. Hearing Lu Zhou's question, Senior Brother Yan said with a smile.

"Oh, speaking of which, I heard you made that old fellow Brunos fall for it?" Professor Grell suddenly laughed wickedly.

"What is the meaning of planting heels, we are all contributing to the great cause," Senior Brother Yan teased in imitation of Academician Lu's tone.

Grell laughed and said, "Hahaha, no wonder the last time I went back to the headquarters, I saw that his face was not quite right, and it was indeed this case." ”

It seems that Professor Brunos's popularity is not very good, not only with Academician Lu, but also with this benevolent brother.

The two stood and blew for a while, and the conversation soon returned to the experiment from the hapless Professor Brunos.

When he learned that Lu Zhou was very interested in this laboratory, Professor Grell excitedly patted the computer in front of him and introduced it vividly.

"Not only is there the world's largest hadron collider, but also the world's most advanced computer system, LCG, through which we can help hundreds of thousands of computers scattered around the world to process experimental data at the same time and finally aggregate this computer is one of them, which is mainly responsible for collecting data from the ATLAS detector."

"With this computer, you can even see the trajectory of the colliding protons in a compact μ meson solenoid, of course, this is a model based on counter-examples, and there are certainly many differences from the real situation, but not too much."

Finally, Professor Greer added earnestly.

"If you're interested in high-energy physics, come to me, I just need an assistant who is good at math. And for you personally, an experience at work will also become you"

Hearing this, Senior Brother Yan interjected beside him: "Don't listen to him, you have been working here for more than ten years, publishing hundreds of papers, and you can't get a first author." There are thousands of signed papers, and no one recognizes your scientific research experience when you return to China. ”

was exposed in person, Professor Grell snorted and glanced at Yan Xinjue very dissatisfied.

Shrugging his shoulders casually, Senior Brother Yan grinned and said, "Don't blame me for exposing your old secrets, I can't watch you fool my junior brother." ”

Professor Grell stubbornly corrected, "How can you call it a fool? I'm kind of advice! ”

It can be seen that the relationship between the two seems to be very good.

I don't know if it's because Senior Brother Yan has been pitted

At the back, the conversation between the two turned into aimless chatter, and Lu Zhou didn't listen carefully.

Because his gaze has been drawn to the data that is constantly accumulating on the screen.

Suddenly, when he saw the data of a certain energy area on the map, Lu Zhou's brows furrowed slightly, and he couldn't help but let out a soft sigh.

Noticing Lu Zhou's situation, Senior Brother Yan glanced at him and asked casually.

"What's wrong?"

Lu Zhou pointed to the computer screen.

"Did you notice that this data fish in the energy area is strange?"