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Chapter 128 What I believe in is not the direction, but Zhang Shuo!
The CP destruction project team is not a monolithic entity.

A large team of several hundred people is like a small society, and small groups, factions and conflicts will naturally emerge within the team.

After the experimental signal conversion analysis method was proven to be invalid, some of the project team's achievements and directions were denied. From the project team to small groups and individuals, the impact was huge, and everyone in the project team had their own thoughts.

Some people applied for transfer early, and some older people planned to work for one or two years and then wait for retirement.

Some highly qualified researchers also want to change direction and continue their experiments.

For example, Qian Zhiguo and Xiao Jinchao.

Qian Zhiguo and Xiao Jinchao are both third-level researchers, with the same appointment level as Yu Fei. They are also team leaders responsible for experiments in the CP group, but they are not responsible for project team management.

After the signal conversion analysis method was proven to be ineffective, the CP group's experiments were suspended.

Qian Zhiguo has always hoped to find a new detection method, restart the hyperon decay experiment and continue to look for baryon CP violation signals.

He was also very dissatisfied with Fei.

After Tan Zhiming stepped down as the head of the CP group, Yu Fei took over according to the order, but Yu Fei's ability and prestige were not outstanding. It was only because he was Tan Zhiming's right-hand man that he took over the position of head.

Judging from the situation of the CP group, after Yu Fei took over as the person in charge, the project team might end up in a mess.

This involves common interests.

If the CP group experiment cannot proceed and will eventually be delayed until it is disbanded, everyone in the group will be affected, and some marginalized people may even lose their jobs.

Qian Zhiguo and Xiao Jinchao discussed with Yu Fei several times, and decided the main direction of the experiment based on their ideas.

Use small experiments to accumulate data and find a new method of signal analysis.

There is absolutely no problem with this direction, and the research was to continue in the direction of CP destruction, but unexpectedly it was blocked by Tan Zhiming, and the Science and Technology Planning Office did not approve the project at all.

The entire CP project team, including Yu Fei, Zhu Wang, Qian Zhiguo, and Xiao Jinchao, were very dissatisfied with Tan Zhiming.

They came up with a solution...

Please help!
Zhang Shuo joined the CP project team as a "strong foreign aid", but in fact, most people in the CP team still hope that the originally determined experimental direction will be the main direction.

Foreign aid is used to support the team.

The CP group will be paid a high salary, and they will also share the experimental results. The status of "specially appointed experts" is also an honor.

This is what Qian Zhiguo and Xiao Jinchao thought.

When Yu Fei decided that the project team would conduct the "strong electromagnetic interference hyperon decay" experiment, Qian Zhiguo, Xiao Jinchao and others started arguing with him again.

"The direction we originally set was very good, why do we need to change direction?"

"Zhang Shuo, does he understand experiments?"

“His computational mathematics and algorithms are very advanced, but we are conducting high-energy physics experiments!”

In the opinion of Qian Zhiguo and Xiao Jinchao, Zhang Shuo's research direction was able to pass the review of the Physics Center because of his personal influence and had nothing to do with the experimental direction.

The fact that he completed the theoretical framework by himself only shows that his mathematical level is very high, but it is hard to say whether it can be truly reflected in the experiment.

After learning about Zhang Shuo's NS research and the publication of two methodological papers in New Advances in Mathematics, Qian Zhiguo, Xiao Jinchao and others all had different feelings.

They understood one thing—

The so-called 'extra high salary', the so-called 'sharing of experimental results', the so-called 'honor of being a distinguished professor', have no appeal at all to Zhang Shuo.

Zhang Shuo's mathematical achievements are so great that he can reach the top level just by doing mathematical research.

A top mathematician!

He is a person who stands at the top of the academic pyramid and at the top of scientific research.

Zhang Shuo decided to join the CP group to conduct experimental research not for fame or profit, but because he truly loves theoretical physics and particle physics.

At least, they knew that Zhang Shuo really wanted to engage in experimental research and really hoped that the experiment would lead to discoveries.

……

It is normal for differences of ideas to exist within a large experimental team of several hundred people.

Zhang Shuo doesn't care about other people's ideas, he has only one requirement - to conduct experiments in his own direction!

If he cannot achieve this goal, he will simply quit the CP group. At that time, whether the research can continue or how others conduct experiments will have nothing to do with him.

Zhang Shuo spent several days getting a detailed understanding of the CP group's experimental equipment, mainly the spectrometer detection equipment, and also learned about the performance of other auxiliary detection equipment and magnetic field equipment.

The next step is to transform the equipment, which requires determining functional requirements, developing a basic transformation plan, and then analyzing the feasibility.

This is the core work.

During this period, Zhang Shuo suddenly had an idea to try to establish a research task - to study the basic force correlation signals of hyperon decay through strong electromagnetic interference.

System prompts——

[Insufficient information, mission creation failed! ]

"Insufficient information?"

Zhang Shuo shook his head indifferently. He had never thought that he would succeed. The basic force correlation signal was related to the verification of the source point theory. How could it be so easy to conduct research?

He immediately continued to establish the mission - to use strong electromagnetic interference to study hyperon decay and search for the baryon CP destruction signal.

[Insufficient information, mission creation failed! ]

"Sure enough, it still doesn't work."

"It is difficult to say whether this experimental direction is directly related to the baryon CP violation signal."

"The theory of baryon CP violation signals is also imperfect, and more discoveries are needed to study them."

Create a task -
【Task 1】

[Research project name: Strong electromagnetic interference hyperon decay research to find chaotic force fields (difficulty assessment: D). ]

[Experimental device completion: 94% (difficulty assessment: A).] (The remaining progress requires 120 scientific research coins.)
【Progress: 0.003%.】

(The remaining progress requires 10 scientific research coins.)
(The task can be canceled. Currently, the number of scientific research coins required to cancel the task is 0.)
"Success—!"

"It turns out that experimental tasks can also be..."

The difficulty of this experimental research task is not high, and its evaluation is only D-level. It is a small research with full progress that can be purchased with 10 scientific research coins.

The difficulty lies in the transformation of the experimental equipment.

Compared with regular tasks, the experimental task has one more thing called "experimental equipment completion rate", and the progress has reached 94%, which refers to the spectrometer detection and other equipment.

If you want to transform, you need to complete the remaining 6%.

The complexity evaluation of the experimental device is A-level, and each point requires 20 scientific research coins.

Zhang Shuo stared at the task introduction for a long time and almost understood it. It would definitely be much better to be able to establish a task. At least the research would not be stuck in the transformation of experimental equipment.

After the device is modified, a series of experimental studies can be carried out around it.

In addition, tasks also occupy a 'task bar'.

If you are doing a large-scale experiment or project, such as building an airplane, the manufacturing process is very long, and the experiment or project itself needs to occupy the task bar continuously.

That's the bad news.

Zhang Shuo once again felt that the task bar was insufficient. He shook his head and continued to focus on taking tasks. Then he gritted his teeth and made a decision -

Krypton coins!

【Scientific research coin - 20.】

Make money to spend;
The scientific research coins you earn are meant to be spent.

After completing a progress, the completion rate of the experimental device became '95%'.

This is not the construction progress, but the direction of the transformation is guided by the basic equipment conditions.

Although the general direction of the experimental device transformation has been determined, many problems will still be encountered during the transformation process, including the control of hyperons, the impact of hyperon movement on detection accuracy, the stability of the external magnetic field, and the connection with particle collision experiments.

After performing the krypton coin operation, the ideas about the transformation of experimental equipment became clearer.

Zhang Shuo quickly took note of the key points, then began to improve them and wrote a plan.

The next day was an internal meeting of the CP group, and the content of the meeting was to discuss the modification and design of the experimental equipment.

Researchers at all levels and leaders of engineering and computing groups attended the meeting.

Yu Fei was responsible for presiding over the meeting.

Before the meeting started, Zhang Shuo handed everyone a renovation plan and explained, "Everyone can take a look. This is the renovation plan."

"The general direction is to add strong magnetic equipment externally, and the internal focus is on the control and detection of hyperons."

“For detection, we can use phased signal analysis, taking the inner quarter orbit as a stage.”

"The key is the control of the hyperons. There cannot be any other external influences..."

Zhang Shuo spoke carefully.

Yu Fei, Qian Zhiguo and others looked at the renovation plan carefully and were very surprised.

Even Yu Fei didn't think Zhang Shuo knew much about the equipment and experiments. In the past few days, he had been introducing the equipment to Zhang Shuo.

In Yu Fei's opinion, Zhang Shuo is responsible for leading the "theoretical and experimental direction", and they are the ones who make the decisions when it comes to equipment modification.

Qian Zhiguo, Xiao Jinchao and others were even more surprised.

This equipment transformation plan is not written in detail, but it is obviously very comprehensive. It is equivalent to making a general plan for the transformation. Later, only some detailed design content needs to be added to finalize the plan and start the transformation.

As they were reviewing the plan, they couldn't help but discuss in a low voice, "Professor Zhang Shuo, do you also know about experimental equipment?"

"From the plan, it seems that he has a very detailed understanding of the equipment. He doesn't look like a novice in particle experiments at all..."

"It also notes several common problems encountered in particle experiments, which is very comprehensive."

"I'm convinced!"

Xiao Jinchao said, "No wonder Director Cao of the Computing Center said that what he believed in was not the direction or the theory, but Zhang Shuo himself."

"Even if we don't do CP violation research, there may be discoveries in the new experimental direction. The first goal of the new direction is to discover the same 'unknown physical phenomena' as particle collision experiments, right?"

"This discovery may also be significant!"

Qian Zhiguo also nodded.

He was still not interested in flying, but Zhang Shuo's ability level was indeed convincing.

Zhang Shuo talked about a lot of professional content.

For example, what issues need to be paid attention to, what devices should be added for detection, what ports need to be left, etc.

This is not just an experimental task.

Particle experiments related to strong magnetic interference are his forte, and he is very familiar with the problems that may be encountered in the experiments.

The specific implementation of the transformation is the work of others.

He was only responsible for the general content, including the modification of the equipment, and only talked about the general modification plan, without going into details such as 'what equipment to add to each part' or 'how to control the magnetic field distribution'.

These are things that need to be done by other researchers and engineering teams.

The next step is to wait.

Once the general direction of the transformation is determined and the specific plan is worked out, construction can begin.

Once the transformation is complete, you can start the experiment.

(End of this chapter)