Chapter 16: Major Discoveries, Predicting Heavy Photons
Three white rabbit toffee went down to the stomach, and drank half a glass of water, which temporarily relieved the hunger.
Su Zhe looked at the time, it was already eight o'clock, and it was already dark outside the window.
This time is very awkward, dinner time has passed, and the time for supper has not yet begun.
Thinking of finding evidence in the raw data to confirm the built model, I gave up and now went to the cafeteria to eat.
He clicked on the data collected by the particle detector and found the time point of occurrence of two sets of X-rays with a wavelength of 0.02 nanometers and a wavelength of 0.1 nanometers.
Check them one by one to see if you can find definite evidence.
According to his calculations, what he needs to find is that the ion beam will process the workpiece, that is, the hydrogen atoms and calcium atoms on the surface of the lens of the optical lens are knocked out, and when the hydrogen atoms and calcium atoms are flying, the former absorbs X-rays with a wavelength of 1.25 nanometers and releases X-rays with a wavelength of 0.02 nanometers, and the latter absorbs X-rays with a wavelength of 1.36 nanometers and releases X-rays with a wavelength of 0.1 nanometers.
Only in this way can the particle detector catch the trajectory of hydrogen and calcium atoms.
If the hydrogen and calcium atoms did not leave the surface of the lens of the optical lens, the ion detector would not be able to do anything.
It's all a matter of luck.
It is best to design experiments to validate, which are relatively not difficult.
Take the verification of the hydrogen atom.
There is a stable X-ray light source with a wavelength of 1.25 nanometers, hydrogen atoms in a specific environment, and an X-ray full-band receiver.
There are two key points in this experiment, one is a stable X-ray light source, and the other is the specific environment.
The latter only needs to know the parameters of the environment, and the former is still a bit difficult.
Of course, there is no such condition now, and he only hopes to find the data he wants in this massive amount of raw data.
Find, find, find! Find, find, find!
Two hours passed, and Su Zhe finally found the case he was looking for in the raw data collected by the particle detector.
A hydrogen atom is knocked out of the surface of the lens of an optical lens by an ion beam, after which the hydrogen atom absorbs X-rays with a wavelength of 1.25 nanometers, and then releases X-rays with a wavelength of 0.02 nanometers.
Seeing this case, Su Zhe jumped up from his chair and shouted, "Yes! If only you could find it...... I'm building the right model. ”
Excited for a while, sit down and carefully study the raw data for this time period.
He synthesized the raw data collected by the full-band electromagnetic receiver and the particle detector during this time period to analyze and reduce the entire process from the absorption of X-rays with a wavelength of 1.25 nanometers to the release of X-rays with a wavelength of 0.02 nanometers.
Thus comparing this process with the model he built.
At first, Su Zhe was very happy, because the original data matched the model he built, and the time for hydrogen atoms to absorb X-rays with a wavelength of 1.25 nanometers was longer than the time for hydrogen atoms to release X-rays with a wavelength of 0.02 nanometers.
This is easy to understand, after all, the energy intensity of X-rays with a wavelength of 0.02 nanometers is much larger.
However, he found that the X-rays at a wavelength of 0.02 nanometers calculated by his model lasted for a shorter period than the actual raw data.
The duration is different, indicating that there is a difference in the energy released by the hydrogen atoms.
In reality, hydrogen atoms emit more energy through X-rays with a wavelength of 0.02 nanometers than in the model.
When he saw the trajectory of the hydrogen atom, he was not calm.
When the hydrogen atom releases X-rays with a wavelength of 0.02 nanometers, the motion orbit of the hydrogen atom is slightly shifted.
Crucially, the direction is opposite to that of X-rays with a wavelength of 0.02 nanometers.
This...... It's so abnormal.
Not understanding, he checked the original data again, and found no factors affecting the displacement of the trajectory of hydrogen atoms.
Based on the raw data he actually collected, he calculated that the energy released by X-rays with a wavelength of 0.02 nanometers was basically equal to the energy that caused the hydrogen atoms to displace.
Thinking about it, he couldn't explain what happened to this hydrogen atom.
After thinking about it for a long time, he made a hypothesis.
Hydrogen atoms release X-rays with a wavelength of 0.02 nanometers, and there is something unknown in the middle of this process.
The whole process should be that after the hydrogen atom absorbs X-rays with a wavelength of 1.25 nanometers, the hydrogen atom releases not X-rays with a wavelength of 0.02 nanometers, but an unknown, mass particle.
After detaching from the hydrogen atom, the particle decays into X-rays with a wavelength of 0.02 nanometers in a very short period of time.
After such an assumption appeared in his mind, Su Zhe himself was amused by this assumption.
Laughing back, he rebuilt the model based on this assumption, and he was surprised to find that both energy and displacement could be reasonably explained.
The rebuilt model and the raw data collected fit perfectly.
Looking at such a result, he couldn't laugh a little.
It's fine if his model is wrong, but if it's true, it's a major discovery.
Atoms in a specific environment absorb electromagnetic waves of a specific wavelength, and the atoms release electromagnetic waves of a specific wavelength and are displaced.
By using this characteristic of atoms, it is not only possible to create electromagnetic waves of a specific wavelength, but also to control the motion of atoms, and to ......
He also predicted the existence of a particle, and he smiled and wrote the name of the particle on the A4 paper: heavy photon.
Based on his newly built model, the properties of heavy photons, mass, decay period, and so on were introduced
As for the formation process of heavy photons, he did not make a detailed calculation, because it was too complicated and there was no complete theoretical support, so he had to give up.
The thought of such a significant discovery made him feel that the Nobel Prize in Physics was beckoning to him.
The more Su Zhe thought about it, the more excited he became, and used his hypothesis to reconstruct the model of the calcium atom in X-rays with a wavelength of 1.36 nanometers.
It was found that the new model was more self-consistent and reasonable than the original model.
With the new model, Su Zhe began to frantically rummage through the raw data.
What doesn't an example prove?
It's a coincidence that it doesn't work well.
What he wants to do is to find more examples to prove the validity of the new model.
I searched through the raw data of the fifth test and couldn't find it, so I clicked on the raw data of the other tests.
I don't know if he was lucky, but in the raw data of the fourth test, he found three instances of hydrogen atoms.
The hydrogen atom absorbs X-rays with a wavelength of 1.25 nanometers and releases X-rays with a wavelength of 0.02 nanometers.
In the three cases, the duration and intensity of X-rays with a wavelength of 0.02 nanometers released by a hydrogen atom varied, and one case was more special, where a hydrogen atom simultaneously absorbed X-rays with a wavelength of 1.25 nanometers released by several different calcium atoms, and this hydrogen atom released X-rays with a wavelength of 0.02 nanometers and made irregular movements.
Su Zhe substituted the raw data of the three cases into the model and found that the model could perfectly predict and match the actual measured data.
"Luck! Luck! ”
At this point, he was almost certain that his model was right, and that the heavy photons he predicted might actually exist.
Unfortunately, no examples of calcium atoms have been found, and if they are, it proves the universality of the model.
Now look at it, it can only be proved by experiments.
He stood up and took a deep breath.
When he got up, he found that it was already dawn outside the window, and when he looked at the time, it was already six o'clock in the morning.
He excitedly rushed out of the office and walked towards the ion beam polishing technology research laboratory, wanting to see if Bao Zhengyi and Fan Xiaoming were there, and he wanted to tell them about the surprise.