The shorter the word, the larger the amount of information. .

After Lenovo’s participation in the Brussels International Symposium on Theoretical Physics, he said that Lu Zhou had already vaguely felt that Professor Frank might be an important thing to say to himself.

So, he did not sneak in and replied quickly.

[When can I see you when you are free? 】

After a while, Professor Frank did not reply.

Lu Zhou looked at the time, estimated that he probably fell asleep, then got up and went into the bathroom for a shower, but also went to rest.

Nothing in the night.

The next morning, Lu Zhou got out of bed and listened to the alarm, checked the e-mail, and received a reply.

[The day after tomorrow I will go to Shixi University, I will probably stay there for three days. If you have time, we can meet there. 】

Lu Zhou looked at the calendar.

There was a lecture two days later, but he had already asked Dr. Delini for a vacation.

After thinking about it, he edited an email and replied.

[Okay, then the day after tomorrow, I will contact you. 】

The reply has only two letters.

[ok]

......

Located on the west coast of New York, it is the economic and cultural hub of the entire West Coast and one of the West Coast's technology centers.

Many people know that Wall Street and Broadway on Manhattan Island, but few people know that it is on the Long Island next door, and also has one of the world's top comprehensive scientific research bases, Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Many Nobel Prizes have been born here, including the non-conservation of Yang Zhenduo and Li Zhengdao's parity, and the j particles found in Ding Yuzhong. There are currently about 3,000 researchers and engineers here, and an average of more than 4,000 visiting scholars work here each year.

Although not comparable to ern, it is also a considerable number.

To a large extent, the meaning of the collider is here. It seems that a novel particle does not seem to change human life immediately, but it attracts a large number of scholars to gather here, which has spawned a large number of suppliers focused on cutting-edge equipment and formed a huge "scientific research ecology". .

For example, the Hadron Collider's storage ring requires nearly harsh vacuum conditions, which has led to the development of ultra-high vacuum technology, which ultimately has industrial value in the medical and electronics industries.

And there are many similar things.

The laboratory is currently part of the Department of Energy, but is managed by the Brookhaven Science Society, a company founded by Stony Brook University and the Battle Institute.

It was just Monday that Lu Zhou drove a new car and arrived in New York.

Professor Frank and his appointment to meet at the coffee shop in front of Stony Brook University. I don't know if it is the illusion of Lu Zhou. I always feel that several professors he knows have a special liking for coffee.

At 12 o'clock in the cafe, Professor Frank arrived at the meeting place on time, and his laptop was on his hand.

"Sorry, I have been in the meeting for a while and have kept you waiting."

Lu Zhou smiled and said: "No, I just arrived."

Sitting across from Lu Zhou, Professor Frank saw the waiter and said with a relaxed tone: "Give me a cup of American coffee and a tuna sandwich."

Waiter: "Do you need to add sugar?"

"No need to."

While ordering the waiter, Professor Frank put the laptop on the table, opened the folder, and asked Lu Zhou: "You brought the u disk."

Lu Zhou nodded and took the u disk from his pocket and placed it on the table. "With it... can you tell me what it is? Although I don't mind drinking coffee with you, but if it's just by data, Why don't we use email as usual?"

Professor Frank did not answer the question immediately. Instead, he operated the computer, opened a chart file, and then turned the laptop in front of him.

Looking at the image on the screen, Lu Zhou frowned slightly. "Is this?"

Professor Frank moved the chair to the side of the table, the image on the screen said.

"This is the latest experimental record of ern. The above two charts are the distribution curves and statistical charts of the energy regions collected by the atlas and ms detectors. You should be able to see the meaning of this picture."

Staring at the image for a while, Lu Zhou’s expression gradually became dignified. “The confidence level has fallen back?”

Professor Frank sighed softly. "Yes, no matter how many experiments we repeat, the confidence level still does not meet the 3sigma standard. And at the end of last year's experiment, the characteristic peak appeared in the 750gev energy zone, and even contracted... That is, the phenomenon that you see the decline in confidence."

Staring at the icon for a long time, Lu Zhou did not speak for a long time.

He vaguely guessed the reason why Professor Frank would talk to him face to face.

Seeing that Lu Zhou had no openings, Professor Frank paused for a moment and continued.

"At the end of the year, this large-scale international theoretical physics conference in Brussels is very large. It is a pity that you missed that meeting."

"At the time, the latest discovery on the accelerator was the newly elected 16th President of the ern Council, Ms. Fabiola Gianano, who was full of scenes, many people sitting on the ground, even outside. corridor."

“The report reported a lot of things, especially for a full 20 minutes, reporting the discovery of ern on the 750gev.”

"You should understand these pictures, or you can bring them back to study," said Professor Frank, sighing and whispering, "although the meaning is not great."

Lu Zhou did not look at the computer again, but stared at Professor Frank, waiting for him to continue.

In response to the younger generation's vision, Professor Frank shrugged and tried to make his tone sound less heavy, and continued: "But in any case, you have helped a lot. From last May to two months ago There have been a large number of papers on Arxiv, many of which are novel physical models. They are not necessarily correct, but they are very useful. And the two papers we have collaborated on have been cited many times by peers."

Although this sentence sounds like comfort, Lu Zhou has not got a feeling of comfort from it.

For this topic, he has spent six months, although for a theoretical physicist, half a year is nothing, not even enough for them to re-grow their hair, but for Lu Zhou, The meaning of this topic is completely different.

Not only because of the models he built from the time he was busy, but also because of his hopes of pouring on the 750gev...

Taking a deep breath, Lu Zhou looked at Professor Frank and said slowly, "What do you mean?"

Professor Frank’s reaction confirmed his speculation.

I saw the old man standing up, took off his hat, nodded slightly, expressed gratitude.

"The official interpretation of ern's experts on the experts is hopeful, but it is clear that from the experimental plan after January 1st, there will be no more experiments to retrieve the 750gev characteristic peak anomaly because it is disappearing, and Every collision of particle clusters is burning money. It is a pleasure to work with you. I sincerely thank you for your work, but..."

Speaking, Professor Frank cleared his throat and bowed his eyes, expressing regret. "Intellect tells us that it is much easier to establish a physical model to explain why 750gev does not have particles, rather than to find particles that do not exist."

However, the significance of this work is not great.

Explain why a particle does not exist, and this kind of guess that cannot be verified and cannot be verified is at most the level of the doctoral thesis. Perhaps it can help a few high-energy physics doctors who have finished their careers to get their own degrees, but they are far from "new physics."

Lu Zhou was silent for a long time.

After a long time, he seemed to make up his mind and said.

"But I haven't given up yet."

Professor Frank did not say anything, put on his hat again, and sighed softly.

"That good luck."