Chapter 619: CERN's press conference
For Xu Chuan, how to pull Professor Tillman Lent out of retirement is indeed a headache for him.
This expert in the field of ionic physics is interested in working in the field of colliders, and as for salary and benefits, there is no shortage for this kind of bigwig who stands at the top of the academic pyramid.
After thinking about it for a long time, Xu Chuan thought of the stellarumer.
If there's one obsession with Professor Tillman, it's the Spiral Stone-7X.
While working at the Planck Plasma Institute, this big man spent most of his life on the stellar, just trying to verify whether his dream could reach the other side.
In the end, the Spiral Stone-7X was sold, and the dream broke its wings.
After discussing it with Wen Yuanhang, Xu Chuan decided to try it again from the stellar simulator.
Although for the outside world, whether the stellarator can go through the path of controlled nuclear fusion is still a confidential information.
However, as long as the No. 03 aircraft carrier is refitted and launched in early February next year, this intelligence information can be quickly deduced by various countries.
After all, the news that they had purchased the Spiral Stone-7X from Germain in the first place could not be kept secret.
As for whether Professor Tillman will get the key technology for controlled nuclear fusion from it, there is no need to worry at all.
The core technologies of controlled nuclear fusion are the 'high-temperature plasma turbulence control model' and the 'first wall material'.
These two, even if Tillman let go of learning, are almost impossible to learn.
The former requires a deep foundation in mathematics and programming, while the latter is based on two technologies: the atomic cycle and the radiation gap.
It is impossible to learn these two techniques just by looking twice in the laboratory.
And as Xu Chuan expected, for the stellar, this is a hurdle that Professor Tillman Lent has never been able to overcome.
If he could see the success of the Spiral Stone-7X with his own eyes, it would have the most fatal attraction for him.
In the reception room, listening to Xu Chuan's conditions, Tillman couldn't help but take several deep breaths of air to calm himself down.
"You're saying you're willing to open up your stellar simulator research and experiments to me in exchange for my help in building the Ring Super Particle Collider CRHPC?"
After taking a deep breath, Tillman finally couldn't help but look at Xu Chuan and asked.
Xu Chuan nodded, shook his head slightly, and said, "It is impossible to be completely open, for example, it is impossible for us to disclose the manufacturing method to you on the first wall material." But at least you can participate in the whole experiment, even to learn about some of the less secret parts, their uses and parameters. ”
After a pause, he continued: "If you want to fully understand our technology for controlled nuclear fusion, maybe immigration is a good choice. ”
"If you want, the Xinghai Research Institute under my leadership can give you a very good salary and benefits, including the RV and your family's green book, all of which can be solved for you."
"If you don't want to, the limit of what we can do is what you have."
It is undeniable that Professor Tillman is a top talent, even compared to some Nobel laureates. But it is unrealistic to completely open and controllable nuclear fusion technology.
Even if he can't learn these alone, the CNC model + the first wall material can't be open to him.
Unless, as Xu Chuan said, he immigrated from the Germanic side with his family.
As for some other technologies and things in controlled nuclear fusion technology, there is no need to care so much, such as ICRF heating antenna technology, helium triple particle detection technology, radiation control system, although these things are important, but not critical, and other countries are not without substitutes.
As long as it is enough to ensure that the high-temperature plasma numerical control model + the first wall material technology does not leak.
As to whether it was worth it to spend such a large price to invite Professor Tillman, it was certainly worth it.
The value of a top-level plasma physics engineer and a world-class superconducting magnet application engineer is beyond words, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a national treasure.
Especially in the construction of the ring super-strong particle collider CRHPC and the application of superconducting magnets, he can help Huaguo speed up more steps and cultivate a small number of talents.
In Xu Chuan's view, it was totally worth it.
In the reception room, Tillman Lent looked at the papers in his hand and fell into deep thought.
In all fairness, the conditions that Xu Chuan and Hua Guo gave him were already extremely excellent, although the plasma turbulence CNC model and the first wall material that he wanted to see the most could not be open to him, but allowing him to participate in the stellarator project on the basis of not immigrating, and understanding the whole process was already extremely advantageous.
After thinking for a while, he looked up at Xu Chuan, took a deep breath and replied, "I agreed." ”
As Xu Chuan expected, the stellarizer and the spiral stone-7X are the hurdles in his heart that he can't pass, and at this point in time, the one who has the ability to provide the stellar mimic for him to continue his research is probably Huaguo.
Even if you can't see the plasma turbulence CNC model and the first wall material technology that you want to see most, if you want to realize your dreams, it's worth it.
Of course, what Tillman didn't know was that the Xinghai Research Institute, that is, Xu Chuan, had completed the ignition of the stellar simulator and successfully walked through this road, and he could be regarded as being fooled.
Hearing Professor Tillman's answer, Xu Chuan showed a happy smile on his face, stood up and shook his hand formally, and said, "Welcome to join!" ”
Tillman straightened his suit and said, "Thank you, I'll do my best in the construction of the Ring Super Particle Collider CRHPC." ”
On the other hand, after the first International Large Strong Particle Collider Launch and Symposium officially ended.
European Atomic Energy Research Centre.
A public press conference was held at the same time.
Nominally, it is a response to the LHC's upgrade to the construction progress of the LH-LHC high-brightness strong particle collider, but in fact, the response is what discerning people naturally know.
"Gentlemen and ladies. Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to attend our press conference. Just three days ago, CERN completed the design of the entire upgrade of the LH-LHCb. The upgraded LHCb detector is 32 meters long, 15 meters high, and weighs 8,800 tons. ”
Once upgraded, the LHCb experiment will be able to use two ultra-high-energy proton beams to collide more than 60 million times per second at nearly the speed of light, and detect and record the various particles produced by each collision. Compared to the previous LHCb, its performance has been improved by a full 60%! ”
"These huge collision data, after the analysis of big data, study the statistical differences between matter particles and dark matter particles, so as to achieve the physical goal of studying matter and dark matter."
"It will be a great new journey for mankind in physics!"
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After introducing the LH-LHC high-brightness strong particle collider, the new chairman of CERN smiled and asked questions to the media reporters in the audience.
Numerous media reporters raised their hands and eagerly passed the microphone to the new CERN Board of Governors.
After all, it's not a big deal to watch the excitement, and when the first International Large Strong Particle Collider Start-up and Symposium was held in China, CERN held a press conference related to the collider.
And for media reporters, the favorite is undoubtedly to make trouble.
This kind of competition, which involves the competition between CERN and CRHPC in the field of high-energy physics, can undoubtedly detonate traffic and create a huge amount of discussion.
Professor Gwendolyn Casey, the new president of the CERN Board of Trustees, took a look around the press room and sent the first opportunity to ask questions to the Washington Post from the United States.
As a long-established newspaper, some of the political positions and positions of the Washington Post are not so obvious, and they generally do not take the initiative to make trouble, at least not at the beginning of the day to throw out an unanswerable question to make things difficult for her.
Although the competition between CERN and the CRHPC Ring Super Particle Collider is open, at least the surface of both sides still needs to be maintained.
And now the construction of a large controllable nuclear fusion reactor in Ohio is also being carried out with the support of China, and if it is done too much, maybe there will be trouble there.
Although the matter in the field of controlled nuclear fusion has nothing to do with her, it is more or less necessary to think about it.
At the gesture of Gwendoline's hand, the Washington Post media reporter was given the first opportunity to ask a question.
He stood up, took two or three seconds to consider his words, and then asked: "Dear Chairman Gwendolin, how long will it take to upgrade the LH-LHC High Brightness Strong Particle Collider according to CERN's plan?" What is the overall performance of the upgraded LH-LHC? ”
Hearing this question, Gwendolyn Casey replied with a smile: "According to expectations, the completion time of the LH-LHC upgrade will be around the end of 2023 to the beginning of 2024, which means that it will only take more than a year for the physics community to usher in a new large strong particle collider!" ”
"As for the performance of LH-LHC, after the United States generously provided a batch of high-temperature superconducting materials with high critical magnetic fields and billions of meters of gold, the collision performance of this high-brightness strong particle collider can reach at least 50Tev or more, and at present, our engineers are trying to find ways to continue to improve, and the follow-up is expected to reach about 70-80Tev!"
"Compared with the original LHC with a maximum energy level of 13Tev, this is undoubtedly a leap forward!"
As soon as the words fell, other arms in the audience were raised.
"Chairman Gwendoline, how did you see the launch and workshop of the Annular Super Particle Collider held by Huaguo Star City today?"
Gwendoline replied with a smile: "As a physicist, I am very happy and I believe that the entire physics community is happy with the construction of the CRHPC. This will allow us to have two strong particle colliders to explore and discover more unknown phenomena. ”
Hearing this answer, some media reporters in the audience were immediately dissatisfied, raised their hands and asked: "Hello chairman, everyone knows that the discovery of the collider is related to its collision energy level, and it is rumored that the collision energy level of CRHPC will be as high as more than 100Tev, will it have a better chance of discovering more unknown particles than LH-LHC?" ”
Hearing this, Gwendoline laughed and replied, "I don't deny that the increase in the collision energy level will indeed have the opportunity to knock particles into smaller pieces, and it is possible to discover more things. ”
After a pause, she changed her words and continued: "However, it is the detectors deployed in the orbit of the collider that will determine whether we can see these particles and unknown phenomena. ”
"Only advanced detectors with high brightness and high sensitivity can have more hope, and it is more likely to replace our eyes to see through the unknown world."
"And in this regard, not that I boast, but in comparison, CERN has a reserve that almost gathers the best of physicists from all over the world, and we have more powerful and sensitive detectors than CRHPC, and we are destined to detect more particles and phenomena."
"I think in the decade since CRHPC was built, CERN will definitely be able to discover dark matter and dark energy, and maybe even the legendary supersymmetry particles."
After a pause, she continued: "And it is still unknown whether the CRHPC can achieve the circulating 100 Tev energy level, which needs to wait until the construction of the collider is completed." ”
Gwendolin's words fell, and the deafening applause immediately filled the room.
Undoubtedly, this is a beautiful answer, which perfectly complements the shortcomings of even the upgraded LH-LHC high-brightness collider in terms of collision energy levels, and also tells the world that it is not the collision energy level that determines whether physical particles can be seen, but the detector.
As for how many people in the outside world will believe this, there is no doubt that the official announcement of the current mecca of physics, CERN, is still convincing.
After a round of applause, the BBC reporter from the sun never sets was given the opportunity to ask questions.
"Hello Chairman of the Board, I heard that Huaguo has invested more than 120 billion RMB in CPHPC, will it replace CERN as a new physics center in the future?"
Hearing this, Gwendoline smiled and replied kindly: "Whether CRHPC will replace CERN as the new physics center, my opinion is to wait for them to build it first. ”
"After all, it took a long time to build a large strong particle collider from start to finish, and it took seven years for the LHC to build, but what about the CRHPC? When I heard that they were going to build a ring tunnel that was more than 100 kilometers long, I thought it would take at least 10 years to complete the project. ”
"As for the transfer of the physics center, perhaps in the future, if the United States and Europe do not invest in the Large Strong Particle Collider, CRHPC may indeed become a new physics center."
As soon as these words came out, the lecture hall suddenly became noisy, with some applauding, some smiling, and even whistling.
No matter how you interpret it, the information revealed in the speech of the chairman of Gwendoline is not very friendly to CRHPC.
Only when the United States no longer invests in the collider will CRHPC replace CERN as the new physics center!
The meaning of these words is tantamount to telling everyone that you can only pick up what we don't want.
And until then, don't even think about it!