In the following time, Li Mu devoted all his efforts to improving the standard model.
To this end, he also read through a large amount of information again and consulted relevant books.
But no one knew what research he was doing.
Other researchers at the Institute of High Energy Physics thought that Li Mu was still looking for the neutral adjoint state particle, and they could only express their admiration for this.
Being able to never give up searching for a goal is certainly worthy of their admiration.
So no one bothered Li Mu during this period.
As for Li Mu, he has been staying at the Institute of High Energy Physics. For him, he can stay anywhere now.
Academician Yue Lang basically stays here anyway. After all, he has just discovered a major result. After completing a project, he naturally has to devote his energy to the research of the next project.
As for taking a break or something, that doesn't exist at all. Otherwise, the results that they could have discovered might have been discovered by other foreign high-energy physics research organizations first.
Just like the J particle discovered by Ting Zhaozhong.
The J particle is a type of meson composed of charm quarks and anti-charm quarks. It has a long life and a large mass.
However, when Ting Zhaozhong discovered this particle, he was not in a hurry to publish it. Instead, based on his usual rigor, he has been trying to confirm this particle.
But not long after, members of another research team also discovered this example and announced it in advance, naming it ψ particle. After Ding Zhaozhong learned about this, he quickly announced their discovery.
So this kind of particle is called J/ψ particle.
For this reason, Ting Zhaozhong and Richter, the leader of the other research group, also won the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Although everyone is happy with this result, it also makes people feel a little sad. If Ting Zhaozhong could release their results as soon as possible, he would not have to share the honors equally with others.
Of course, there are many such examples in the scientific community, and the intensity of competition has led some to call scientific research a zero-sum game.
Therefore, Academician Yue Lang and the others had no intention of resting.
But there will still be some leisure time in the busy schedule.
So, one day in late October, several academicians from the Institute of High Energy were sitting in the courtyard, enjoying the sun and chatting.
"It's almost November, and the temperature has dropped again. Time flies so fast." Yue Lang sighed.
"Yes, once December passes, people will grow old again." Jiang Yuren couldn't help but nodded.
"Don't talk about age when you are old." Wang Fang waved his hand and said, "It is such a pity to think that I will leave this world in who knows how long."
"Oh? You're such an old man, and you still haven't looked away?" Yue Lang said with a smile.
"If I were ignorant, I might have looked away." Wang Fang shook his head and sighed: "But when I think about the fact that there are still so many particles that have not been discovered, and there are still so many problems in physics that have not been solved, waiting for me to bury them When you're inside, you won't be able to know these things, don't you think it's a pity?"
After hearing what Wang Fang said, several other academicians fell silent, and finally nodded with emotion.
"That's right."
Perhaps for scholars like them, the greatest pain of death is the cessation of acquiring knowledge.
"So I envy young people like Xiang Xiaomu. I still have a long time."
Everyone nodded in agreement.
"By the way, is Li Mu still studying that problem recently?" Wang Fang suddenly asked Yue Lang at this time.
Yue Lang shook his head: "Probably not. He is now planning to solve this problem from another angle."
"What angle?" Jiang Yuren also asked curiously.
But before Yue Lang could answer, a voice suddenly came from the side: "Everyone, academicians, are all here."
They turned around and saw a middle-aged man walking over.
Several academicians laughed and said hello.
"Director Hu."
"I didn't expect to see Director Hu here."
Director Hu, Hu Yunping, director of the National Science and Technology Awards Office.
This person holds an award that all scholars across the country are very concerned about, so he has naturally become an acquaintance of these academicians.
Although the awards office is not entirely responsible for judging the winners of several major national science and technology awards, it is still easy if they don't want someone to win the award.
Therefore, no one will offend Director Hu.
As the director of the High Energy Institute, Wang Fang stood up and asked, "Oh? Why is Director Hu free to come to us today? Is this a surprise inspection?"
"Academician Wang is joking. I am the director of the Awards Office. All academicians are my leader. How can I make a surprise inspection on you?"
Hu Yunping waved his hands in confusion, and then said: "I am here today. First of all, I want to inform you about the National Science and Technology Awards Conference that will be held next month."
"Of course we all know this. Is this matter worthy of Director Hu's personal visit?"
Wang Fang said doubtfully.
They had known about the convening of the National Science and Technology Awards Conference a few months ago. After all, it was held almost every year in November.
Normally, just a notification is enough, why do we need the reward class teacher to come in person?
"Haha, of course there is another thing." Hu Yunping said with a smile: "I heard... Li Mu is here with you?"
Several academicians were suddenly stunned and looked at each other.
Does this mean that Hu Yunping came specifically to see Li Mu?
…
In Li Mu's dormitory.
"Wait a minute, after the perturbation expansion achieves convergence, the transmission of the weak interaction force always seems to be somewhat disharmonious."
"Especially on the W boson..."
With the inspiration brought by his mathematical intuition that day, after so many days of research, Li Mu has gradually found the key to achieving convergence of the perturbatively expanded formula of the Standard Model and coordinating the three fundamental forces in the Standard Model. , especially the weak interaction force.
However, at this time, he encountered a big problem.
He encountered an error in his handling of the W boson, because in his newly constructed model, the W boson became very different from the W boson in the previous standard model.
"In terms of quality, there is such a big error? There is at least a 0.1% quality error!"
Don't underestimate this 0.1% error. It may very well represent some new particle that exceeds the expectations of the standard model, or even a new fundamental force.
Li Mu couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
But at this moment, the dormitory door was opened, and many people came in from the outside.
Li Mu couldn't help but stop thinking, turned around and was stunned.
"Academician Yue, Academician Wang... why are you here?"
"Haha, I have to ask Director Hu."
Yue Lang smiled and pointed at Hu Yunping next to him.
Afterwards, Hu Yunping walked up and said to Li Mu with a smile: "Hello, Mr. Li Mu, I am Hu Yunping, director of the National Science and Technology Awards Office."
"As commissioned by our minister, I hope to have a chat with you."
…
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