Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 637 Research and Analysis Work
In the process of exploring science, everyone hopes that the results will be unexpected, because unexpected things mean new unknown discoveries.

A few months later, Yue Yuan, who was very concerned about the astronomical-level particle collision experiment, also left Tianqin and came to the operation command center of the ion collider to learn about the results of the second collision.

The so-called operation command center is actually a workplace composed of a number of work cabins. However, due to the relatively strong technological strength of human beings, these work cabins are built very spacious, so that the scientists working here will not feel claustrophobic due to the small space.

When Yue Yuan arrived at the scene, all kinds of scientific researchers were still busy with their own work, and there was no welcoming ceremony. He just casually greeted them when he saw them passing by. He went straight to the central hall and walked directly to Liu Miyan who was fiddling with something in front of the large computer screen.

Leaning over to take a look, Yue Yuan knew what Liu Miyan was doing. He was processing the data of the second impact. A schematic diagram of the simulated impact process and results could be seen on the computer screen.

Although Yue Yuan is not a top scientist, after years of study and training, his scientific literacy is not bad. He is now roughly equivalent to the level of a senior scientific researcher. So along the way, he can see at a glance what those researchers and scientists are doing.

After coming to Liu Miyan's side, Yue Yuan didn't say too much. The two of them exchanged a few words casually, and then he left Liu Miyan to continue analyzing the data. Yue Yuan didn't ask much, he just wandered around and watched these scientists and researchers work.

So he saw the entire experimental analysis process.

He saw some staff members doing data preprocessing, which is the process of preprocessing the raw data collected in the experiment, removing noise, correcting detector responses, etc. This step is mainly to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the data.

Some are in the process of reconstructing particle trajectories. Particle collision experiments will produce a large number of particles, and the trajectory data measured by the detector is needed to reconstruct the movement of the particles in order to grasp a series of physical properties of the particles. This step involves complex calculation processes such as pattern recognition and orbit fitting.

The scientific researchers who are doing this part are not only doing it themselves, but also have strong artificial intelligence supporting the calculation process behind the scenes. The addition of strong artificial intelligence has undoubtedly made the work of scientific researchers much simpler, and it can be regarded as a joint work of humans and strong artificial intelligence.

Another group is doing physical measurements of the experimental products. They mainly take over the previous process, that is, reconstructing the particle trajectory analysis data to measure the particle's momentum, mass, spin and other physical properties. This process requires great precision, because the precise strategy of these physical quantities is crucial to studying the properties of particles and their interactions.

There is also a working group that does the data analysis and interpretation process, which is to perform statistical analysis and model fitting on the processed data, so that scientists can draw conclusions and interpret the experimental results based on these things.

This process involves data processing technology and the application of theoretical models. It can be said that each position has different focuses and requires scientific researchers with different areas of expertise to work.

It can be seen from this that scientific exploration is a matter of collective wisdom and efforts.

After walking around, Yue Yuan returned to the place where he entered the hall of the Operation Research Center. Seeing Liu Miyan still working hard, he turned his gaze to the large screen in the center of the hall, which was mainly used to demonstrate the experimental process.

Then he saw the schematic diagram and demonstration animation of the neutron collision. In the picture, he could clearly see that the two beams of neutrons bombarded each other in the collider. Of course, most of them missed the target, but the few neutrons that collided with each other were shattered after the flash, and an animation appeared with arrows indicating the direction and particle type.

It also marks the soft and hard processes of the collision. After the soft process of the collision occurs, the experimental products marked as junk particles are immediately ejected outward. They come from the interaction between quarks. The hard process, on the other hand, produces gluons. The hard process first produces the Higgs particle, which then immediately decays into a bottom quark and an anti-bottom quark.

Now this group of scientists and researchers are studying the physical properties of these products, so as to reversely infer what happened in the collision process, what physical process led to the result, and what happened to the interaction between the "junk particles" and what kind of interference they caused to the experiment.

I don’t know how long it took, perhaps because he finished the things at hand, Liu Miyan finally had time to come to Yue Yuan and began to introduce the entire data processing process to him one by one.

"You have been analyzing for a while. When will there be results?" After listening for a while, Yue Yuan followed Liu Miyan to a workbench and asked.

"I have analyzed all the data on hand. I will summarize it after others upload the parts they are responsible for. The results will be available today." Liu Miyan answered in a loud voice.

"Well, I'll wait a moment." As he said that, Yue Yuan leaned back in a work chair and turned his head to glance at the researchers who were still busy.

After this round of understanding and Liu Miyan’s explanation, Yue Yuan had a better understanding of the data analysis process of the collider experiment. He felt that it would be no problem for him to be one of the researchers next time.

For the next half hour, Yue Yuan chatted with Liu Miyan, mostly about the topic of particle collision experiments.

About half an hour later, a voice pulled Liu Miyan back to his work station.

Yue Yuan, who was present, naturally followed.

Liu Miyan returned to his workbench and immediately sat down, then connected various signal lines of human-computer interaction to his work clothes, while his hands operated back and forth between the physical operating panel and the virtual connection screen.

As he operated, the data on the several display screens in front of him kept changing, and various curves and summary models gradually took shape in his hands.

In places that Yue Yuan couldn't see, Liu Miyan also directly retrieved groups of data from the human civilization database through the human-computer interaction network for comparison and reference. Those were precious technical information left by their predecessors. Although Liu Miyan was a top physicist, he was also a human being and it was impossible for him to remember everything. Therefore, his work also needed the support of a powerful database.

If it were in the Earth era, this process would be to find and take out books one by one from the bookshelf for reading. Fortunately, human technology is now advanced, and we can directly connect to the Human Science Database Center through the human-computer interaction system for search and browsing.

(End of this chapter)