Chapter 671 What Happened in the East?

"CERN?"

Hear what Gelman said.

Opposite him, the expression on John Crump's face suddenly froze.

But soon.

A forced smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he said in a dazed manner:

"Murray, what are you talking about? How could CERN equipment fall into the hands of the Chinese?"

“It’s not like you don’t know the current international situation. The East and the West are at odds with each other. How could a transaction of that magnitude be possible?”

"Besides, you should have seen the burnout report of that accelerator. It was a joint announcement from the three countries of Britain, Germany, and Gaul. How can the Chinese have the ability to connect with those three countries?"

As he talked, John's confidence gradually increased.

The accelerator sent to CERN by Cambridge University has attracted a lot of attention during this period. After all, it involves Heisenberg, a top physics tycoon and the highest-energy particle accelerator in the world.

Therefore, after learning that the accelerator was burned, intense discussions broke out within the European and American physics circles.

Due to the joint announcement by Britain, Germany and France, the focus of discussion was generally on the security efficiency of Normandy.

Many scholars believe that if Gaul could strengthen security management, this tragedy could be completely avoided - why is such important equipment stored next to flammable and explosive materials?

There are also some famous Nobel Prize winners who hold this attitude, such as Percy Bridgman, Patrick Blackett and so on.

If these big guys are like this, Gelman should not be able to get relevant inside information outside the game.

So after the initial surprise.

John's expression quickly returned to normal when he looked at Gell-Man - if nothing else, Gel-Man was just blowing his hair.

But what surprised him was that Gelman still shook his head firmly after hearing this:

"No, Mr. John, the Chinese people should be using the CERN equipment."

Then he took out a page from the paper and put it in front of John:

"Mr. John, look at this."

John subconsciously took the paper, shook it like a doctor checking a medical record, and put it in front of him to read.

This is a cloud chamber image related to the particle deflection angle, which is also a relatively mainstream particle observation method at present.

The cloud chamber is usually filled with supersaturated gas, and then after the charged particles enter, the supersaturated gas is ionized, and the supersaturated gas in the cloud chamber can easily condense into small droplets.

Like a jet plane showing a trail behind it, that's its trajectory.

The nuclear-to-mass ratio determines the different track radii, the charge determines the different deflection directions, and the track thickness also has some characteristics that can be distinguished, etc.

John curiously flipped through the image report in his hand a few times, and looked at Gell-Man again in confusion:

"Murray, what's wrong with this image?"

Hearing this, Gelman coughed lightly, pointed at one of the tracks and said:

"Mr. John, look, this is the trajectory of beta particles, right?"

John nodded.

Gelman's index finger slid down a little further:

"Looking at the detection structure of this particle, the shower process is a rare tree diagram, and the end branches of the image exceed seven."

"The reason for the appearance of this kind of image can only be that the lattice atoms of the p-n junction are ionized, and as far as I know."

"There is only one accelerator with this kind of lattice structure, which is the tandem electrostatic accelerator that Cambridge University is sending to CERN."

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John was silent for a few seconds, shook his head and said:

"Jasmine, is it possible that this is a coincidence?"

"impossible."

Gelman immediately shook his head, continued to take out another paper, and said:

"Mr. John, look at this again - this is a diagram of the deposited energy of secondary particles."

"This is an event in which a hadron decayed to ττ. I just made a simple backward calculation and found that the number of gold-plated tungsten wires in the main drift chamber of the experimental equipment should be around 6,500."

"The number of gold-plated tungsten wires in the accelerator sent to CERN by the University of Cambridge is 6,786."

"With this value and the similarity in the lattice structure, Mr. John, I am at least 90% confident in guessing that the tandem electrostatic accelerator at CERN fell into the hands of the Chinese."

"Of course, as for what transactions are involved, I don't know how Britain, Germany and France are willing to cooperate with China in performing such a scene."

This time.

John opened his mouth again, but in the end he remained silent.

To be precise, he had nothing to say.

after all

Everyone is engaged in physics research, and their logical thinking is much higher than ordinary people.

There is no point in pretending to be stupid in the face of some obviously convincing evidence.

As everyone knows.

Generally speaking, the particle shower process is mostly circular like a firework explosion, that is, there are equal-length radii around the center of the circle.

But the shower process in the image Gell-Mann showed is similar to a tree-like tree with spreading roots. The reason for this situation can only be due to the p-n junction...that is, the existence of silicon semiconductor:

When an external voltage is applied to the p-n junction, a depletion layer will be generated inside the p-n junction, and there will be an electric field in the depletion layer.

When a high-energy charged particle passes through the depletion layer, it ionizes the lattice atoms of the p-n junction and generates positive and negative charges that can move freely.

These positive and negative charges move to the edge of the p-n junction under the action of the electric field, and then form a tree root-like tree diagram.

Of course.

If it was just this one anomaly, John could try to explain it.

But another picture that Gell-Mann took out later completely shut John up.

The event of hadron decay to ττ.

In 2023, when Xu Yun traveled through time, hadron decay to ττ was almost everywhere, and even the Higgs particle decay to ττ could be observed from time to time.

But at this time, it is indeed a rare "incident".

Because it involves displacement jets.

When particles decay into quarks, they undergo a process called hadronization, which causes collimated particles to be ejected in the detector - this process is called a jet.

If a new neutral LLP decays into a quark in the outer layer of the calorimeter, it will leave a "displaced" jet.

These will leave a very unusual feature in the experiment:

The jets will have no associated particle tracks in the tracking detectors, and will be very narrow compared to their Standard Model counterparts, because the spray of particles has no time to separate in space, and will leave a large part of their total energy in the hadron part of the calorimeter.

In this era, the physics community has not yet recognized the concept of quarks, so there are only two accelerators capable of displacing jets:

The 80MeV electrostatic accelerator at the University of Cambridge, and the 60MeV electrostatic accelerator at Brookhaven National Laboratory across the sea.

The way to directly apply the displacement jet to the technology is to add gold-plated tungsten wires in the main drift chamber of the experimental equipment.

This tungsten wire requires very advanced electroplating technology, involving magnetron electroplating coating. Nowadays, many European countries do not have it, let alone China, a poor country.

In this case, the number of gold-plated tungsten wires exceeds 6,700.

Combined with the previous shower process, Gell-Mann's 90% is actually a bit low.

Seeing John was silent, Gell-Mann looked at him again and guessed:

"Mr. John, you already knew about this, didn't you?"

John nodded slowly.

Now some of the Rabbits' banned equipment are shipped to China by him, including materials such as electrostatic analysis modules. The transportation route of the accelerator is also through his relationship. John naturally knew about this.

Then John returned the two papers to Gell-Mann and asked:

"Murray, since you have already seen this, why don't you tell Mr. Guzmit?"

Hearing this, Gell-Mann looked at the sky and smiled:

"What do you want to tell him? Let this matter become known to everyone in advance?"

"Although Mr. Guzmit has some friendship with Professor Zhao, he obviously won't stand on the side of China in this matter."

"Professor Zhao's country is really too difficult. If this kind of thing can be exposed one day later, they can get more bonuses for one day. Don't you think so, Mr. John?"

After that.

Gel-Mann also exhaled a breath of turbid air.

Just as he said.

Although Guzmit is an anti-war activist and has a good relationship with Zhao Zhongyao, it is obviously impossible for him to stand on the side of China on such a national interest issue.

Otherwise, Guzmit would have agreed to publish the paper when he saw it, so why would he wait until John mentioned the hope of the Nobel Prize before he was tempted?

But Gell-Mann is different.

In addition to his relationship with Zhao Zhongyao, the reason why he chose to hide it from Guzmit is also very important:

He is a Hebrew.

The Hebrew nation has always been controversial, but one thing that cannot be denied is that they have always been pursuing national restoration.

After the founding of Israel, many Hebrews also returned to their own country to contribute.

Therefore, Gell-Mann is more inclined to the Chinese side in terms of national sentiment. The two sides have a deep empathy on the words "national prosperity" - of course, it is only at this time, and in a few years, the two sides will take completely different paths.

This emotion, coupled with Gell-Mann's relationship with Zhao Zhongyao, ultimately made Gell-Mann choose to play dumb in front of Guzmit.

His starting point is fundamentally different from John's. The reason why John continues to keep the secret is largely because he has a long-term transaction with China.

Once the transaction between the two sides stops, John may draw a line with the rabbits at that time - he is still a businessman after all.

Indeed.

There are many top scholars across the sea now. Even if Gell-Mann does not expose this matter at this time, it is estimated that someone will find these two anomalies.

But as Gell-Mann said.

As long as it can delay China for one day, China can get one more day of dividends - this is the limit of what Gell-Mann can do.

As for secretly hiding these two images.

Just kidding.

If they can really hide the two images and not publish them, how can Zhao Zhongyao and others attach them to the paper?

Although these two images are not core data, they are indispensable links in the description of the entire Yuanqiang model.

Whether it is hiding or modifying the data, it will have a great impact on the persuasiveness of the Yuanqiang model.

So when they decided to publish the paper, Xu Yun, Zhao Zhongyao and others were ready to expose the deal with CERN.

That's why the rabbits have been desperately trading linear oscillation detection components with Germany in the past period of time, just to prevent the Germans from stopping trading after the accelerator was made public.

But then again.

Whether it is Xu Yun or Zhao Zhongyao, they probably didn't expect that this matter would be exposed so soon.

But if you think about it carefully, it's normal, after all, this is Gell-Mann.

Even in this era, there are no more than five people who can compete with him.

After a while.

Gell-Mann looked at John again, with a little curiosity in his tone:

"Mr. John, I have a question to ask you again."

John nodded at him:

"Just say it, I will tell you everything I know."

Gell-Mann looked at him deeply:

"What happened in the East?"

John was stunned.

Then Gell-Mann waved his hands in the air a few times and said:

"I saw a news report before, saying that three U2s from the military on 4V crashed in China."

"Although the military said it was a complete accident, this statement can only barely fool Ni. Ahem, people with simple thinking."

"Now that the heat of the U2 incident has not yet dissipated, China has obtained the tandem accelerator from CERN, the ancient Eastern country. What is the situation now?"

After saying that.

Gell-Mann stared at John in front of him with a face of "I am very curious" as if he was possessed by Chitanda.

Not long ago.

The military across the sea released a message late one night, saying that three U2s carrying out a mission at 4V crashed in China.

This news quickly attracted the attention of all walks of life across the sea, and the topic was even higher than the burning of the CERN accelerator.

After all, the CERN accelerator itself has a relatively heavy professional barrier, and people who are not particle physics practitioners will hardly be interested in it.

But U2 is different.

Military-related news is a hot topic in any country in any era, not to mention that the crashed one is the U2 reconnaissance plane that is being marketed crazily across the sea.

Although a U2 was shot down in the bear country a year ago, that incident was actually caused by the bear's spies who tampered with the U2 body in advance, strictly speaking, it was not a technical problem.

But now three U2s have crashed in China, which is obviously a challenge to cognition.

In addition, according to the gossip that Gell-Mann heard.

China has actually spoken out in the international community through the bear's channel, saying that these three U2s were kicked down by a donkey.

The donkey is obviously an excuse. The real meaning of this news should actually be

U2 was shot down by rabbits.

It is just said that the military across the sea blocked this news, so there is basically no report of China's statement in all walks of life in Europe and the United States.

Not long after the U2 incident, the rabbits quietly got CERN's tandem electrostatic accelerator, which made Gell-Mann curious:

What happened in the East?

Note:

The highest temperature is 39.3. I probably can't write these days. I divide the manuscripts into 4,000-word chapters and publish them. I don't know how long they will last.

I can only use one leave note this month. If I take more than one day off, I will lose my 20% attendance.

Tomorrow is my birthday. Please give me some monthly tickets for my miserable life. I promise to continue to update as soon as I recover. Sigh