Chapter 937: CERNs invitation, Khadra Dark Matter?
Jinling, Nanda.
Xu Chuan, who had just finished his math class, rolled up the math textbook in his hand and walked towards the outside of the teaching building.
After giving guidance to two students, Liu Jiaying and Yin Shi, on their graduation thesis, he conveniently submitted a teaching lesson to the Academic Affairs Office of NTU.
Although under normal circumstances, the courses in colleges and universities are scheduled one week before, his behavior of temporarily jumping in the queue does not comply with the regulations.
But regulations are dead and people are alive.
Whether it is for NTU itself or the students inside NTU, his courses have always attracted much attention.
Not to mention the students of the school, sometimes even the mathematics professors of NTU would squat behind the lecture theater with a thermos cup.
Even if it is a basic open class, sometimes speaking from this person's mouth will bring them some new inspiration or ideas.
Not everyone is dawdling, especially in key 985 universities like Nanjing University, where there are generally more people who want to move forward.
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After returning to the office from the teaching building, before Xu Chuan's chair was warm, a call came from Lin Feng.
"Junior Brother Chuan, something happened. I just got the news that CERN has made a major breakthrough in the detection of sterile neutrinos!"
As soon as the call was connected, Lin Feng on the other end spoke anxiously.
Hearing the news, Xu Chuan was slightly stunned and asked: "What's going on?"
Lin Feng reported quickly: "It is said that experimental data indicating that sterile neutrinos belong to the form of dark matter has been found. It may be part or all of the data."
"We don't know the specific situation yet. The information was revealed by a theoretical physicist who had previously conducted research there."
"He said that the CERN institution has made certain breakthroughs in sterile neutrinos, and an acceptance report meeting may be held soon."
"If they really do it, this may not be good news for us."
The competition between CRHPC and CERN was determined from the beginning.
Although for the physics community, having two large strong particle colliders is something that all physicists are looking forward to.
But for the countries behind them, both sides are competitors who want each other to die.
After all, while the Large Strong Particle Collider involves the development of basic physics, it can also attract a large number of foreign talents.
Perhaps these scholars will not immigrate directly, but conducting experiments at home can also promote the development of science and cultivate talents in this field.
Just as there is no room for two tigers in one mountain, it is impossible for two holy places of physics to exist at the same time in the world.
Hearing the news, Xu Chuan was a little surprised, frowned slightly and said, "Is there any more specific information?"
He did not doubt the authenticity of the news. If it was false, it would mean nothing to them. CERN could not rise based on false news.
Especially now that there is the CRHPC Ring Super Particle Collider, it is very simple to repeatedly verify their collision results.
But the opponent's speed really surprised him.
In the morning, he just got on the phone with Lin Feng and talked about this matter.
Although it was said at that time that CERN might have made a breakthrough in the detection of dark matter, neither of them actually paid much attention to it.
After all, the academic community has been searching for dark matter for countless years. However, in addition to the cosmic microwave background radiation, observations of galaxy clusters, the formation of large-scale structures in the universe and other macro-scale cosmic phenomena, it has been confirmed that there is indeed something invisible to humans in the universe.
Matter that cannot be detected affects the development of the entire universe.
In any other aspect, whether through the Large Hadron Collider or other scientific research equipment, no signs related to dark matter have ever been observed.
The only special case is the results he made at CERN a few years ago, where he observed some properties of sterile neutrino particles that may be part of dark matter.
And this, from the perspective of this era, is actually just ‘possibly’ dark matter.
Despite the influence of Xu Chuan, many people in the contemporary physics community have accepted that sterile neutrinos are a type of dark matter.
But in fact, it is not certain at present whether it really belongs to dark matter.
On the one hand, there are too few ‘samples’ available for analysis.
The only type of particle discovered so far that is related to dark matter is the sterile neutrino. In theory, the number of dark matter types is not less than the number of particles that make up real matter, and may even be more.
On the other hand, the currently observed data on sterile neutrinos are all manifestations of its discontinuous resonance state structure, and predictions about the nature of dark matter have not been fully detected.
So, to be more rigorous, no one except Xu Chuan himself can guarantee that sterile neutrinos must be dark matter particles.
It's just that it's a little more likely than other things.
On the other side of the phone, Lin Feng sighed and said, "This is the biggest problem."
"The current relationship between us and CERN can be said to be very unfriendly. It is impossible for the other party's research progress information to be opened to us before it is officially disclosed."
"I asked Professor Reinhard Genzel, and he didn't know much about the experimental conditions at the University of Munich and Harvard University."
Xu Chuan nodded and said: "Okay, I understand, please continue to pay attention to the follow-up situation, and contact me in time if there is any news."
"In addition, the acceptance of the coupling constant, the last important prediction of the unified theory of strong electricity, will be postponed in three days. You can discuss this matter with Director Tai."
Lin Feng nodded and said: "Okay."
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After hanging up the phone, Xu Chuan sent a message to Zheng Hai and asked him to help book a high-speed rail ticket to Star City.
Then he opened his computer mailbox and downloaded the acceptance data submitted by Shanghai Jiaotong University regarding the coupling constant, the last important prediction in the unified theory of strong electricity.
Regardless of whether the experimental data detected by CERN are sterile neutrinos, other dark matter, or something else.
At present, the most important thing for him and the CRHPC organization is actually the verification of the unified theory of strong electricity.
Although he has always firmly believed that except for his personal participation in the detection of dark matter, it will take at least several years for other scholars or institutions to find and fully confirm dark matter particles.
This is after he has confirmed that sterile neutrinos are a type of warm dark matter, otherwise it will only take longer.
But sometimes, accidents may happen.
Perhaps under the stimulation of CRHPC, CERN really broke out? This is also possible.
Although it is indeed a pity to lose the title of the first "completely" confirmed dark matter, but if it is really lost, there is nothing we can do.
After all, life is like this sometimes, no one knows who will come first, tomorrow or the accident.
In fact, if you really want to talk about it, as early as when the CRHPC institution started operating and began to arrange the subsequent collision experiments and research work, someone had proposed to advance the dark matter detection experiment.
At least they should complete the detection of sterile neutrinos before CERN and seize the honor of being the first to completely confirm dark matter.
However, this matter was eventually rejected after discussion.
Quite simply, compared to the unified theory of strong electricity, even if dark matter is currently discovered and confirmed, it will not be able to bring about profitable results and scientific and technological progress in a short period of time.
The unified theory of strong electricity is different.
Although it is also at the forefront of theoretical physics, it will take decades or even longer to transform it into applied results.
However, some secondary theories or lower-level achievements extended from the unified theory of strong electricity can actually promote the development of some science and technology.
For example, cutting-edge technologies such as plasma and electromagnetic deflection shields, the basis of neutrino communication technology, which are still under research, all have a certain relationship with the unified theory of strong electricity.
Compared with the discovery of dark matter, the importance of verifying the unified theory of strong electricity is far more than just an honor.
This paper also contains more treasures, waiting for latecomers to excavate.
Therefore, the final collision experiment is still focused on verifying the unified theory of strong electricity, and the detection of dark matter is placed later.
If the detection of sterile neutrinos or dark matter is eventually discovered by CERN, Xu Chuan doesn't have much to say.
Whether it is CERN or CRHPC, even if both parties are about to have their brains knocked out, they still maintain a tacit understanding.
That is, this cutting-edge theoretical research is fully open to the outside world.
Not only is it open to the public, if every collision result and exploratory experiment is to be fully recognized by the academic community, it must hold an acceptance report meeting and go through a question-and-answer session.
This is similar to the 'peer review' in the paper review process, and it can be regarded as a pure land in academia.
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The next day, afternoon.
Star City, the Bagua Building of CRHPC Headquarters in Taohualing.
First, he went to the office of Director Tai Xuewen, who was responsible for the daily affairs management of the CRHPC organization. After chatting for a while about the acceptance report meeting on the unified theory of strong power, Xu Chuan knocked on the door of Lin Feng's office and walked in.
"I thought you would come over two days later when the acceptance report meeting is held, but I didn't expect it to arrive today."
Hearing the knock on the door, Lin Feng, who was working on his own work, looked up and was stunned for a moment when he saw him. He then stood up with a smile and said hello.
Xu Chuan smiled and said: "I happen to be not very busy with other things, so I came over to check on the situation."
He pulled out a box of tea leaves from the locker. While making tea, Lin Feng continued: "Speaking of which, there has been some progress in the matter that you asked me to pay attention to yesterday."
Hearing this, Xu Chuan looked over in surprise: "So fast?"
"Um."
Lin Feng nodded, walked over with two cups of hot tea, handed one cup to Xu Chuan, and then continued: "I contacted a few friends who are still working at CERN, and indirectly contacted the University of Munich and Harvard through them.
The university team will understand the details of the information disclosed."
"How do you say it?" Xu Chuan asked curiously.
Lin Feng thought for a while and said: "The specific information is not very detailed, but from the information we have found, CERN seems to have observed the signal produced by the annihilation of dark matter after collision."
"Judging from the experimental data, some of these data show the same signal as the sterile neutrinos you observed before."
"In addition, the beta decay reaction in the experimental data violates the law of energy conservation and has been calculated to increase the sterile neutrino signal by about 6 to 7 percent."
"After ruling out other experimental interference, the teams from the University of Munich and Harvard University believe that this may be data generated in some kind of dark matter particle collision experiment."
"To put it simply, they believe that the neutrinos produced by some particles in the collision have completed the mutual transformation process between manifest particles and field particles, and turned into sterile neutrinos through neutrino oscillation."
"I'm afraid we still have to wait until CERN holds a press conference or acceptance report meeting to find out what the specific situation is."
Hearing Lin Feng's description, Xu Chuan frowned and pondered for a while, then shook his head and said, "The amount of information is too small. I'm afraid it's difficult to judge the other party's true situation from this alone."
Dark matter itself is at the forefront of research in theoretical physics. Even he can hardly make a judgment based on a few general descriptions.
In particular, the fact that the beta decay reaction in the experimental data violated the law of energy conservation and increased the sterile neutrino signal by about 6% to 7% made him feel a little strange.
Opposite the sofa, Lin Feng shrugged, looked at Xu Chuan and said with a smile: "No matter what the situation is, as long as the results are true, CERN will definitely hold a press conference and acceptance report meeting."
"I dare not say anything about other people, but what is certain is that you will definitely receive an invitation from the other party by then."
The man in front of him is the leader of sterile neutrino detection. Through the LHC collider, he has determined that there is indeed at least one kind of particle in the universe that cannot be explained by the standard model.
No matter whether it is dark matter or not, as long as the results of the CERN institution are based on the sterile neutrino correlation, it is absolutely impossible to bypass it.
If we really want to bypass him and hold an acceptance report meeting, I am afraid that the entire physics community will not recognize this achievement, or at least there will be considerable doubts.
"That's true."
Hearing this, Xu Chuan smiled and nodded.
Indeed, no matter what, it is impossible for CERN to avoid him and hold the acceptance report meeting.
Because the outside world will remain skeptical about this acceptance report, just like the verification work of the predicted coupling constant in a unified theory of strong electricity completed by CERN.
Bypassing him as the founder, holding a relevant report meeting, and then passing it rashly, whether the theoretical physics community accepts it or not is one thing.
While chatting, a loud phone rang in the office.
Feeling the vibration in his pocket, Xu Chuan reached out and took out his phone and looked at the screen.
The call was from Tang Ran, his assistant at NTU.
"Hey, Tang Ran."
Thumb across the screen, Xu Chuan answered the call, and Tang Ran's voice quickly reported from the other side.
"Professor, your work email has just received an email from the Council of CERN, the European Atomic Energy Research Agency, inviting you to attend an acceptance report meeting called 'Kadra Dark Matter'."
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