Great Country Academician

In fact, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is also having a headache for this year's Nobel Prize.

Of course, it wasn't the discovery of sterile neutrinos that bothered them.

It is the technology of "Nuclear Beta Radiation Energy Concentration and Conversion Electric Energy Mechanism".

After all, the inertial neutrino has not yet been thoroughly verified. Even if CERN deduces that Xu Chuan's success has a confidence level of 3 sigma, it is just a discovery.

In the field of high-energy physics, the confirmation of a new particle or a new thing requires at least 5 sigma or more to confirm that it is real.

Such strict requirements are due to the fact that high-energy physics is one of the foundations for building physics. Countless particles and phenomena are the basic materials that make up the current universe and the foundation for building the building of physics.

If something goes wrong with one particle, of any kind, it could cause great turmoil in physics. More seriously, it is not impossible for the entire physics to collapse directly.

So even if an inert neutrino is discovered, it will take a while to verify it.

However, the technology "Nuclear Beta Radiation Energy Concentration and Conversion Electric Energy Mechanism" is different. The scope of this technology is nuclear waste.

For countries around the world, almost all countries capable of building nuclear power plants are troubled by nuclear waste.

Nuclear fuel can be used to generate electricity and benefit mankind, but nuclear waste is extremely difficult to dispose of, and careless disposal will cause major problems for the earth's ecological environment.

Although there are countless stars and seas in the universe, the earth is still the only home of mankind.

Therefore, any country with a little foresight will not dispose of nuclear waste indiscriminately.

And the technology of "Nuclear Beta Radiation Energy Concentration and Conversion Electric Energy Mechanism", even if it only exists in Huaguo, it still benefits all countries in the world, and benefits everyone.

For the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, whether a new technology or discovery meets the selection criteria for the Nobel Prize, benefiting mankind is undoubtedly one of the criteria, and it still accounts for a considerable amount of criteria.

After all, the purpose of setting up the Nobel Prize is to reward those scientists who have made significant contributions and progress to mankind in the previous year.

Does Nuclear Waste Repurposing Qualify?

must have!

If even this level of technology is not eligible to be selected for the Nobel Prize, other technologies are even more ineligible.

But, the owner of this technology, Professor Xu, is extremely young, and even won the Nobel Prize in Physics in Stockholm last year.

Although the Nobel Prize has not been awarded to the same person twice, it is unprecedented in history that the Nobel Prize has been awarded to the same person for two consecutive years.

Even Marie Curie, who won the Nobel Prize twice, was awarded in 1903 and 1911 respectively, with an interval of nearly ten years.

For this reason, the selection committee of the Nobel Prize in Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is about to explode.

They had a quarrel last year because of this extremely young scholar. Could it be possible to do it again this year?

big head.

On the other hand, Nantah.

In the office of the Institute of Physics and Technology, Xu Chuan and the physics team of Nantah University are finishing the mathematical analysis of the second batch of sterile neutrinos.

"It's finally done!" In front of the computer, Lin Feng crossed his fingers, stretched his waist, turned his head and shouted to the other side: "Little brother, the data for fabricating the Dariz map has been sent to your mailbox."

Xu Chuan glanced at it, and replied: "Got it, thanks for your hard work, Senior Brother Lin."

Lin Feng complained: "You young man doesn't talk about martial arts, and you rely on your physical fitness to toughen our group of thirty-something old comrades."

Hearing this, other researchers and doctoral students or postdoctoral fellows in the office also complained together.

"that is!"

"Chuanshen discovered inertial neutrinos this time, so why won't he win another Nobel Prize?"

"Isn't this a treat?"

Xu Chuan smiled and said: "Okay, I invite you to have a big meal tonight. You can choose the location. You can order whatever you want. If the inertial neutrino can confirm it, I will give you a bonus. It has been a hard time. Everyone."

"Ulla!"

"Chuan God's atmosphere!"

"Thank you boss! The boss is very generous!"

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There was cheering in the office, and Xu Chuan smiled and continued to sort out the data and draw the Daritz diagram.

These people have really worked hard during this period. The work that was originally expected to take 20 days to complete was completed in a week after he joined. It is also appropriate to treat guests to dinner and send a red envelope, after all, this is doing something for him.

After processing the data analysis of the second batch of inert neutrino collision experiments, Xu Chuan integrated the first batch and the second batch of data together, double-checked carefully, and after confirming that there was no problem, he sent an email to CERN.

It didn't take long before the reply from CERN was sent.

Sender-David Gross: "The email has been received. Thanks to Professor Xu for his support to CERN. We will arrange researchers to check and check the calculation first. If there is any problem, we will communicate with you in time. If you confirm the inertia The confidence level of neutrinos has reached above 5sigma, and CERN will make this news public as soon as possible.”

Since Xu Chuan is not at CERN, and cannot go to CERN to give a report meeting, the data processing method of inertial neutrinos can only be confirmed in this situation.

Of course, this doesn't take long.

CERN is a sacred place in the physics world. More than 70% of the achievements in the high-energy physics world come from here. There are countless well-known theoretical physicists who can confirm the Daritz diagram made by Xu Chuan.

The process took five days.

After receiving a reply from Professor David Gross, the chairman of CERN, on the morning of the sixth day, the mentor of Xu Chuan's mentor called him.

"Hey, Xu, I didn't disturb your research." David Gross greeted Xu Chuan on the phone with a joyful voice.

"Glad to receive your call, Master Gross." Xu Chuan replied with a smile.

"Haha, of course, this is definitely something to be happy about."

Gross said with a smile: "After verification by CERN, we have determined that there is a new type of particle in the collision data of the 120um (rφ direction) of the anti-helium-3 nucleus in the internal tracking system."

"And it is the sterile neutrino you discovered!"

"Congratulations, Xu, you have found the legendary particle beyond the standard model, and created a new brilliant and great epic! The entire physics world will change with you!"

Hearing this, Xu Chuan also showed a bright smile on his face, and replied, "That's really great."

For the physics community, physicists are unremittingly exploring things beyond the standard model, and any phenomenon beyond the standard model will receive the most attention.

In high energy physics and particle physics, neutrino physics is one of the most important research frontiers.

Because neutrinos have the only experimental evidence beyond the standard model of particle physics - neutrino oscillations!

Neutrino oscillation: 'that is, one kind of neutrino spontaneously changes into another kind of neutrino during flight, such as changing from an electron neutrino to a muon neutrino or a tau neutrino. '

(This explanation is relatively simple. In fact, the phenomenon of neutrino conversion does not occur in neutrino oscillations. I have put the specific explanation in my words. If you are interested, you can go and have a look.)

Neutrino oscillations indicate that neutrinos have a tiny mass, which is currently, no, it should be said that it is the only phenomenon that human scientists can observe before that exceeds the standard model.

It once almost brought down the edifice of physics, but fortunately, physicists finally solved this big trouble.

Neutrino oscillation is so far the only physical phenomenon that cannot be explained by the standard model, which has fascinated countless physicists. external ions.

Finding a particle beyond the standard model is still the dream of all physicists.

And now, it's here!

Inert neutrinos!

This hypothetical particle that may constitute warm dark matter appeared in people's world for the first time, and it was confirmed that it really exists!

Although the data currently observed by the physics community may be incomplete, limited by the backwardness of the observation equipment, only a part of the information of the inert neutrinos can be observed, but this is enough.

Even if it is an incomplete particle, it will still change the entire physics world and people's perception of the world!

This is the most brilliant brilliance of physics, and it is also an epic that opens up a new world!

PS: There will be an update later, asking for a monthly pass, the 2,000 monthly pass is still 500 short!

Neutrino oscillation: It was proposed by Italian physicist Pontikov in 1958 that if the mass of neutrinos is not zero, then neutrinos of different flavors can transform into each other and oscillate.

By neutrino oscillations, I don't mean that neutrinos change from one flavor to another as they travel.

Rather, when neutrinos are observed after a certain period of time (distance) propagation, there is a certain probability that they will show a different flavor from the initial state. A neutrino whose initial state is a certain flavor eigenstate will not change into another flavor eigenstate during the motion.

. This point is easy to understand. In the theory of neutrino mixing, the reason why the flavor transition of neutrinos occurs is because the flavor eigenstates are the superposition of mass eigenstates, and different mass eigenstates will have different Velocity accumulates phase, which makes the state of neutrinos not always orthogonal to other flavor eigenstates, so when observed, there can be a non-zero probability of appearing in a flavor eigenstate different from the initial state.

This is the correct neutrino oscillation theory.

It does not mean that neutrinos become another kind as they fly.

(Is it a bit similar to Schrödinger's cat? It is not sure whether it is dead or alive before the observation, and it can only be known after the observation.)