From all-round academic master to chief scientist

Chapter 414 CEPC-SppC Completed

Time flies, and in the next few months, Lin Xiao is waiting for the completion of the preliminary preparations for the Golden Crow Project, and at the same time, waiting for the completion of the Super Proton Collider at the Institute of High Energy Physics.

Afterwards, he naturally followed his promise and transferred the room-temperature superconductors originally allocated to them for the Golden Crow Project to the Institute of High Energy Physics.

Transferring their quotas to the Institute of High Energy Physics will not affect them. After all, the Institute of High Energy Physics' collider will be completed early next year, and their preliminary projects will not be completed until next year.

Mainly, some key experimental equipment needs to be booked and purchased in advance, and the cycle of this matter is also relatively long, which may even take half a year.

In addition, not to mention that they also need to build a supporting deuterium and tritium extraction plant, which means they need to extract and purify seawater, which requires building a submarine pipeline.

As for how to obtain deuterium and tritium from seawater, there is naturally a complete set of industrial plans. Although it is also a troublesome matter, compared with the overall difficulty of controllable nuclear fusion, the difficulty of this matter is only at best. It’s one plus one.

Of course, although these one plus one difficulty questions do not require too much attention, they still require the same time, or even more than those difficult questions.

Therefore, during this period of time, Lin Xiao, the chief engineer, almost didn't care about the Golden Crow Project, and basically handed over these trivial chores to others, such as Song Tao, who served as the leader of the preliminary preparation team.

And he himself continues to try to find the key to unifying the strong interaction force and the electromagnetic interaction force through mathematical methods.

But obviously, he still didn't find it.

Of course, this matter is considered normal. After all, not every physical problem can be solved through mathematical methods.

Perhaps the electroweak unified theory was a method derived mathematically by previous physicists, and after decades of hard work, they finally achieved a theoretical unification of the electromagnetic interaction force and the weak interaction force.

But maybe the strong interaction requires certain experimental observations?

Lin Xiao couldn't make a conclusion about this, but he just needed to continue his research.

In this way, after the summer vacation, Beijing University once again ushered in a new semester.

Since Lin Xiao is now a professor in the School of Physics, according to his original request, the college did not continue to arrange classes for him. At most, he was allowed to give an open class occasionally.

Both in mathematics and physics.

It's a pity for the students of the School of Mathematics. They used to be able to take Lin Xiao's classes, but now they can't. As for the public classes, to be honest, which of Lin Xiao's previous classes was not considered a public class?

Therefore, the students in the School of Mathematics are basically very uncomfortable.

The students in the School of Physics were overjoyed. For the students in the School of Mathematics, it was a loss, but for them it was a gain, a leap from 0 to 1.

In the past, Lin Xiao didn't teach physics classes. At most, he only mentioned some physical mathematics knowledge in his mathematics class.

And now he has become a physics professor and has begun to teach open physics classes. This is simply good news for the students of their physics school!

So in the words of Dean Wang of the Institute of Physics, their society is like celebrating the New Year, with all kinds of celebrations.

Of course, for the School of Physics, Lin Xiao's "joining" has also allowed the School of Physics to take off in enrollment this year. First, it has kept up with the School of Mathematics, and secondly, it has directly achieved the top spot in the national physics major. The effect made the old guys at Qinghua next door feel so sour that they wanted to cry.

I heard that because of this incident, Wang Changsheng drank two large glasses of wine and said that it was not a loss.

What he said was true. Naturally, it was because of the conflict he had with Zhao Qi, the dean of the School of Mathematical Sciences, because of Lin Xiao. Although this conflict had been resolved long ago, when Zhao Qi learned about this year's enrollment situation, he directly He roared angrily: "Old man, you and I have nothing to do with each other!"

Of course, even if Lin Xiao heard about these things, he would probably laugh them off at most. The new semester was also a new academic year, and he also ushered in a new batch of graduate students.

Three in total, two in physics and one in mathematics.

Since there was nothing going on in the Golden Crow Project for the time being, Lin Xiao took a few of his students and guided them for a semester.

In this way, time passed in this temporary leisure, and 2024 also ended completely in Lin Xiao's leisure.

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2025, March 1.

China High Energy Physics Research Organization, the Circular Electron Positron Collider-Super Proton Collider was completed and the first academic committee meeting was officially held.

This meeting is to celebrate the completion of CEPC-SppC on February 15, and it is also a meeting to discuss the next research direction.

CHEPRO, the Chinese High Energy Physics Research Organization, is an international cooperative research organization born out of the Institute of High Energy Physics. Its form is naturally basically the same as CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

Similarly, just like CERN relies on the experimental facility of the Large Hadron Collider LHC, CHEPRO also relies on CEPC-SppC, which is completely funded by China to conduct research.

As an international cooperative research organization, CHEPRO naturally has many member states. Researchers from these member states can come here to participate in research. As for the member states, they naturally include all countries in the world, and these countries also Researchers from all over the world came to attend this meeting.

Therefore, this conference brings together almost all the high-energy physics talents in the world.

No high-energy physicist is willing to miss such an event. Of course, the most important thing is that none of them is willing to miss the circular electron-positron collider-Super Proton Collider, this terrifying thing.

The maximum collision energy is 118 TeV. Compared with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, it is simply the difference between a child and an adult.

118TeV, if calculated, is equivalent to accelerating protons to a level that is less than 1m/s lower than the speed of light.

And this speed is achieved by human power, and it is a miracle born in human hands.

What needs to be known is that although the LHC can accelerate protons to a level that is only about 3m/s lower than the speed of light, which does not seem to be much different, according to the derivation of the mass-energy equation, the closer the speed approaches the speed of light, the closer the energy approaches infinity. , so when the speed reaches the range of the speed of light minus one, the energy will also show an extremely exaggerated growth trend.

And the collision of such energy means - possible new particles, or even new physics.

In this way, any paper can easily enter the stage of history.

Therefore, no high-energy physics researcher is willing to miss it.

Maybe the next Nobel Prize-level achievement will be born in their hands?

After the meeting, after a congratulatory speech at the beginning, as the director of the Institute of High Energy Physics and also the chairman of CHEPRO, Wang Yi smiled and said: "Then, next, let's invite the chairman of our academic committee. , Mr. Lin Xiao delivered his speech."

Applause suddenly sounded. The previous speeches were full of boredom and uninteresting, but Lin Xiao's speech attracted everyone's attention.

After all, this is Lin Xiao.

Needless to say, everyone present knew the many honors.

Lin Xiao also stood up with a smile and began his speech.

"First of all, welcome everyone..."