I am devoted to scientific research, but you want to trick me into having a love relationship?

Chapter 488 Look, you seduced me
Not long after, Xu Qingzhou opened an email from Richard, with whom he had once collaborated. This idealist is still in the LHC experimental group.

In total, the Higgs boson's companion particle experiment has been going on for seven months since January, and as far as he knows, there has been no progress so far.

On this side, Song Yao was tired of lying down, so she got up from the sofa, hugged Xu Qingzhou from behind, rested her chin on his shoulder, and read emails with him.

“It’s probably the same this time.”

Xu Qingzhou thought about it and started reading emails.

【Professor Xu, first of all, I would like to update you on the progress of our LHC experiments in testing the Higgs boson companion particle you predicted. After the latest round of experimental runs and data analysis, we have not yet observed a clear signal of this particle in the TeV energy range.】

[Although this result may not be completely consistent with our theoretical model expectations, I still believe that there is still room for further research by adjusting the coupling strength or energy scale setting, or exploring other decay channels.]

[You know, those people only care about the experimental results]

Richard invited Xu Qingzhou to the European Organization for Nuclear Research to participate in joint research.

Xu Qingzhou declined politely as he had a lot of things to do. He had to do his own superconducting thin film experiments and assist Song Yao in completing his paper on short-selling strategies.

Of course, he also further stated that he would look at the experimental data there when he has time, hoping to provide some reference opinions.

"Aren't you going?"

"I'm not that interested in particle physics."

Xu Qingzhou shook his head and said.

Many people think that the Standard Model has been completed with the discovery of the Higgs boson, but Xu Qingzhou thinks it is far from complete. To use a metaphor, it may be a phenomenological model made of paper.

The next stage in particle physics may be to find a Balmer-like formula to classify the particle mass spectrum.

But...that is very difficult. At least Xu Qingzhou doesn't have that much energy to study this thing.

"Oh?"

"Besides quantum mechanics, now it's condensed matter, and in the future, it's new energy, which is one of the hottest fields in the future. Nuclear fusion, batteries. You see, I said you seduced me."

The hot air exhaled by Song Yao hit Xu Qingzhou's neck, giving him goose bumps and making him feel distracted.

It’s fragrant and soft, who can resist it?

"Ha~"

Song Yao ignored the old pervert and went to the bedroom in her slippers.

end of June.

The scent of autumn was stronger, and it started to drizzle in the morning. Xu Qingzhou put his umbrella at the door of the laboratory, greeted everyone, and sat down at his seat.

As soon as the experiment began, he became busy, living between home, laboratory and library.

The experimental process was indeed bumpy.

The precursor problem was just solved in the first week, but during the second round of experiments, the vacuum leak of the ALD equipment caused oxidation damage to the samples after 4 days.

So Xu Qingzhou and Carson became maintenance workers again and replaced the Viton seals.

Carson pointed at the computer and said, "Professor Xu, last week's data has been processed."

"Hard."

Xu Qingzhou nodded and checked the experimental data.

Carson is responsible for data cleaning, removing outliers, or using interpolation to fill in missing values, while Sun Simin and Mars are responsible for simple tasks such as unifying the data and classifying and coding it.

Mars couldn't help but say, "Professor, I read in the school newspaper that James' team has completed the third round of experiments. They have designed the finished product through atomic layer deposition (ALD) and expect the interface defect density to be reduced by 90%, the relaxation time of the quantum bit to be increased to 500 microseconds, and the dephasing time to exceed 200 microseconds."

"Oh, that's pretty impressive." Xu Qingzhou nodded slightly.

"That's it?" Mars scratched his head. It seemed that the professor was not panicked at all.

Xu Qingzhou thought about it, nodded, and said in a deep voice: "Being able to compete with such a team fully proves that we are also very powerful." "."

Sun Simin and Mars looked at each other and thought that their team seemed to be really powerful.

"This announcement is for the project management office and investors to see. Of course, it is also for us to see."

Carson turned his office chair, poured himself a glass of water, and returned to his seat. He continued with great experience: "Doing scientific research is like eating chocolate. You never know what the next piece will taste like."

Many research groups are immersed in this cutting-edge field, so they naturally feel pressured when they see this news. Some try to catch up, but some give up directly, and some even package up their own experimental data and send it to the leading research groups in exchange for a chance to be listed.

This is called timely prevention.

This will save you from working hard for a year only to find out that your topic has already been completed by someone else.

"Ouke, to show respect to your powerful opponent, you two should read a book." Xu Qingzhou knocked on the table and said.

Sun Simin and Mars nodded and lowered their heads to continue looking at their notes.

On this side, Xu Qingzhou also turned his eyes to the computer screen to look at the data of sample A08.

During this month, they were basically doing pilot experiments to verify whether the graphene substrate could withstand the ALD deposition temperature and test the feasibility of ALD growth of metals.

It is very basic work, just like selecting and testing different bricks, steel bars and cement before building a building.

The problem with sample A07 is that the film is torn or wrinkled during electrochemical stripping (FeCl), resulting in an uneven substrate for subsequent ALD deposition.

After experiments, they finally used double-layer PMMA protection, first spin-coating 300 nm PMMA and then covering it with 50 nm PDMS to enhance mechanical strength.

Finally, low voltage stripping was performed with a voltage ≤ 1 V and the electrolyte temperature controlled at 25 ± 2 °C to reduce stress damage.

"Well, the tearing problem is solved."

Xu Qingzhou scanned the rows of data and nodded with satisfaction, but after 10 minutes, his gaze stopped.

【EDS shows Nb:Sn = 3.5:1± 0.2. 】

"The Nb:Sn atomic ratio deviates by ±17%."

Xu Qingzhou leaned back in his chair and rubbed his temples.

“Yes, the critical temperature drops from the theoretical 18 K to 15 K, and the critical current density is only 4.2×12 A/cm at 5 K/10 T.”

Carson said helplessly: "In addition to this, the plasma reduction efficiency is insufficient. When the H plasma power is 80 W, Sn accounts for only 80%, and the residual SnO causes the superconducting phase purity to drop to 70%."

"give it to me."

Xu Qingzhou nodded slightly, looked at the time, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon, and then said: "Everyone has worked hard during this period. Of course, compared to this sentence, two days of vacation will probably make you happy."

"Boss, let's go for a drink tonight?" Carson stood up and invited him. His philosophy was to indulge when necessary.

"You guys have fun, I have other things to do." Xu Qingzhou smiled and shook his head, still thinking about how to solve the problems in this round of experiments.

"alright."

Carson didn't force it, knowing that Xu Qingzhou was probably busy thinking about experimental issues. He looked at Mars and Sun Simin.

Sun Simin quickly shook her head. In her mind, bars and the like were not good places.

"I"

Although Mars wanted to indulge himself, he looked at the Partial Differential Equations in front of him and shrugged helplessly: "I still have to complete the deadly task given by the professor."

On October 10, Xu Qingzhou will test them, and only those who pass can stay in the research group.

"OK, sorry, you guys missed out on a party."

(End of this chapter)