Volume 1: Student Life Chapter 418 Return to MIT
The next day, Chen Zhou and Friedman prepared to return to MIT.
Matheson and Coyle stayed at SLAC.
They also need to complete all the tasks assigned by Friedman before returning to MIT.
Of course, this is also an excellent training opportunity for them.
After all, this is SLAC, the United States' national accelerator laboratory.
But, everything is afraid of comparison.
Because early the next morning, Matheson and Coyle had to rush to the laboratory.
So, last night, the two of them came to Chen Zhou's room and said goodbye to him.
Of course, their time together was after the receptionist left.
However, when saying goodbye, what the two asked most was what Friedman and Chen Zhou had said.
Chen Zhou did not hide anything from the two of them and briefly recounted his experience of following Friedman to the Bay Area beach.
Also, there was the matter of Friedman arranging for him to work with Cross on data.
When Matheson and Coyle heard what Chen Zhou said, they couldn't help but look at each other.
Both of them saw from each other's eyes that it was indeed the case.
At the end of the seminar, Matheson and Coyle were in discussion.
Professor Friedman has no reason to bring Chen Zhou here without arranging any experimental tasks for him.
So, the two guessed that Friedman would probably assign a task to Chen Zhou alone.
Now, all the speculations are as expected.
The way Matheson and Coyle looked at Chen Zhou changed.
They are very envious!
They have been following Professor Friedman for such a long time and have never been treated like this.
On the contrary, it was the newcomer Chen Zhou who was valued so much by Friedman as soon as he arrived.
Therefore, the gap between people often lies here.
When the people around you are all similar, you can't tell the difference.
But once someone breaks this balance, the gap is like a vertical blow.
And Chen Zhou is the one who comes to break the balance.
In this regard, besides envy, Matheson and Coyle naturally felt a little bit dissatisfied.
As for why it is just a trace?
The main reason is that after reading Chen Zhou’s two papers, they still admired him.
If Chen Zhou could do so well in this experiment of finding the rubber balls, then they would naturally have nothing to say.
However, this experiment is much more difficult than Chen Zhou’s previous experiment in China.
So many talented people in the field of particle physics have not solved this problem.
Can Chen Zhou do it?
Therefore, this slight sense of dissatisfaction mainly came from the preferential treatment Chen Zhou received.
Although they thought so in their hearts, Matheson and Coyle did not show it on their faces.
They also wanted to see what kind of results Chen Zhou could produce since Friedman valued him so much.
At the same time, the two of them secretly made up their minds to let Professor Friedman see that they were not bad either.
Chen Zhou naturally didn't know what they were thinking. After seeing off his two senior brothers last night, he fell into a sound sleep.
Now that Friedman had everything arranged, he was in no hurry to look at the data.
When he returns to MIT, he can do his research properly.
When leaving the hotel and heading to the airport, the only thing that surprised Chen Zhou was.
Does this lady at the front desk have any misunderstandings about herself?
Why does that person look at me as if I owe her eight million?
But Chen Zhou thought about it carefully and seemed that he didn't have much interaction with this receptionist?
Except for last night, she brought herself a midnight snack.
The conversations between me and her probably didn't exceed ten sentences, right?
So, before leaving, Chen Zhou thought about it carefully.
Finally, I said to the lady at the front desk: "Thank you for the midnight snack last night. It was delicious~"
Although Chen Zhou thought he was sincere, the front desk lady looked like she wanted to eat him after hearing what he said...
Before boarding the plane, Chen Zhou sent a message to Yang Yiyi, Liu Maosheng, Zeng Zigu and others.
Today is September 15th, Thursday.
That was the day when senior invited them to coffee hour.
Coffee hour is in the evening.
Chen Zhou estimated that he would still be able to attend after returning to MIT.
So I made arrangements with Yang Yiyi and others in advance.
Yang Yiyi quickly replied and said directly that she would wait for Chen Zhou to come back and go with him.
Liu Maosheng and Zeng Zigu were together, so the message Chen Zhou received was from Liu Maosheng.
Liu Maosheng expressed his understanding and said he would come over if there was still time.
If there is not enough time, there will be a chance next week, and he will talk to Julia and the others.
After reading the message, Chen Zhou did not reply but turned off his phone directly.
The plane is about to take off.
Unlike when they came, Chen Zhou and Friedman took a morning flight back.
The estimated landing time is around 4 pm.
After the plane took off, Chen Zhou noticed that Friedman was resting with his eyes closed.
He originally wanted to rest up, but maybe because he drank too much last night, he slept too well.
So now I am not sleepy at all.
There was no other way. Chen Zhou thought about it and took out the draft paper and pen.
Since he is not given the chance to sleep, he must make good use of this time.
Chen Zhou plans to calculate and study the theoretical model of the rubber ball.
Moreover, it is not limited to one theoretical model.
Historically, the earliest theoretical model used to study glueballs was the MIT pocket model.
That’s right, it’s the theoretical model proposed by physicists from MIT.
This is also the earliest theoretical calculation to obtain multiple colloid energy spectra with different quantum numbers.
That is how to obtain that energy range .
After that, particle physicists applied many other theoretical methods to study glue balls.
Common ones include lattice QCD, stream tube model, Coulomb gauge theory, Ads/QCD theory, and QCD sum rule.
QCD stands for quantum chromodynamics, a theory that describes the strong interaction in which quarks interact by transferring gauge particles called gluons.
QCD has achieved great success in describing phenomena in the perturbation energy region and has also been verified by a large number of experiments.
However, there are still many difficulties in the study of non-perturbative problems, and there is still a long way to go.
And a glueball is a hadronic state composed only of gluons.
It is a typical problem involving non-perturbative quantum chromodynamics.
However, the problem has not been solved yet.
However, through these theoretical studies, particle physicists have gained a deeper understanding of the relationship between the properties of glue balls and the QCD vacuum structure.
Chen Zhou will now start with the pocket model and understand these theoretical research methods one by one.
This is also the method that Chen Zhou always likes to solve problems.
To put it bluntly, Chen Zhou uses his rich theoretical knowledge to create an accurate direction.
