The rise of nanometers

After arranging the company's affairs, Huang Xiuyuan looked at the bustling city outside the window and fell into thinking.

The trajectory of the world has long been changed beyond recognition under his butterfly wings. It seems that the world is developing towards his ideal world.

But Huang Xiuyuan felt vaguely uneasy, perhaps because he was gradually losing control of the future trajectory. Human beings are naturally afraid and disgusted with the unknown.

But soon, he broke away from this worry and calmed down again.

The future may become increasingly unfamiliar, but as long as you are strong enough, you can deal with all of it with powerful power, even if it is an ever-changing unknown.

It's quiet at night.

After having dinner, he operated the stand-in robot through the virtual system and came to a research institute in the Magic City.

This institute is officially led, and some researchers from the Suiren Department are also involved. The institute is mainly engaged in the research of tailfield accelerators.

The so-called tailfield accelerator is actually a small particle accelerator that can be used to study high-energy physics.

Moreover, the tailfield accelerator has great potential and is very expected to replace the large particle collider in the future and become an important equipment for human research into high-energy physics.

Originally, this project was not included in the development plan in the 12th Five-Year Plan. Among domestic researchers engaged in high energy physics, only a small laboratory under the High Energy Department of the Academy of Sciences is doing research in this area.

Huang Xiuyuan knows some things about the future scientific community. Just as Academician Yang said, the feast of high-energy physics has passed, and there is not much that can be discovered by the large particle collider.

Without the big butterfly Huang Xiuyuan, according to the future development trend, the large particle collider of the Xizhou Alliance, despite many upgrades, would still have no results.

On the contrary, Harvard University in the United States has achieved the miniaturization of the particle collider through a different approach to the tailfield accelerator, and has also increased the energy level of particle collisions by two orders of magnitude.

In the 1930s and 1940s, the American scientific community achieved a lot of achievements in high-energy physics, which was based on the technological development of tailfield accelerators.

Naturally, Huang Xiuyuan would not miss this project. After all, the tailfield accelerator is only over one kilometer at its maximum, which is extremely cost-effective compared to large particle colliders that can easily run dozens of kilometers.

There are also domestic scholars who have been persuading the government to invest in the construction of a large particle collider. Especially with the rapid development of the domestic economy in recent years, this voice has become increasingly noisy.

He has been consulted several times by the higher authorities, but Huang Xiuyuan and Academician Yang agree that the basic possibility of achieving a breakthrough in high-energy physics at a large particle collider is zero.

Because the energy level of the large particle collider is already difficult to increase.

He and Academician Yang jointly rejected the proposal to build a large particle collider. After all, the investment to build this project would require at least 150 billion yuan.

It would be fine if all parts of the world were to bear this money. The problem is that the Western Continent Alliance, Japan, and North America have not yet emerged from the economic crisis, so naturally they will not invest in such a project.

In terms of high-energy physics, there are relatively few domestic talents. Even if it is built, it will be cheaper than the foreign scientific community.

Without this international spirit of self-sacrifice, Huang Xiuyuan would rather spend the money on a tokamak device than invest in a large particle collider.

The large particle collider faction at the High Energy Institute was also full of complaints about him, but they didn't dare to refute it openly.

Huang Xiuyuan, Academician Yang and others also heard a lot about these private rumors, but he remained unmoved.

After all, in the domestic scientific community at this time, Huang Xiuyuan can be regarded as the pinnacle of applied science, while Academician Yang is the pinnacle of high-energy physics. It is difficult to overturn what the two deny.

What's more, compared to the illusory high-energy physics, aerospace, new materials, genetic engineering, controllable nuclear fusion, etc., these projects with practical uses are more attractive to the higher authorities.

However, Huang Xiuyuan did not deny the importance of high-energy physics. The Suiren Department itself also has three high-energy physics-related laboratories.

It was he who single-handedly facilitated the establishment of the Shanghai Institute of High Energy Physics.

However, this incident has also caused the field of high-energy physics in China to be divided into two factions, the large-scale faction that insists on large particle collider, and the tail-field faction that supports tail-field accelerators.

The base camp of the Oba faction is at the Magic City High Energy Research Institute.

Huang Xiuyuan and Dr. Chen Wendong, a high-energy laser expert from the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Mechanics, stood outside a laboratory and could see what was going on inside through the observation window.

At this time, a multiple tailfield accelerator was displayed in the middle of the laboratory.

A week ago, the CSi nanocrystals sent from Shanmei headquarters became the laser excitation crystals in the tailfield accelerator.

Due to the improvement in efficiency, the laser output power per unit time has more than doubled.

After the acceleration of multiple tailfield accelerators, the velocity and temperature of the particle flow at the end have reached a qualitative change.

Dr. Chen Wendong, who designed the experiment, looked at the data on the computer nervously.

Suddenly Huang Xiuyuan's eyes froze because he saw a familiar yet unfamiliar parameter: "Is this the signal of positrons?"

"That's right!" Chen Wendong said excitedly: "This is the positron generation solution we have been looking for."

Huang Xiuyuan finally recalled some memories. The Shanghai Institute of Optics and Mechanics in Shanghai did publish a paper in 2021, which produced a large number of positrons through high-energy lasers.

If his memory is correct, the number of positrons produced in that experiment was definitely not as high as it is now.

Huang Xiuyuan did not personally participate in domestic scientific research projects in the 1920s, but the lasers in the 1940s could only produce about 80% of the scale of positrons.

Obviously, he has brought too much future technology, which has led to the rapid advancement of supporting facilities and materials in the domestic scientific community.

With such a dense positron scale, obvious electric light can be seen with the naked eye.

Huang Xiuyuan carefully read the contents of the experimental design again. Dr. Chen Wendong beside him also calmed down and began to check the detected data.

Due to the first laboratory, the laser power was only activated at 75%, and then they increased the laser power little by little.

As the power continues to increase, the scale of positron generation in the vacuum cavity becomes larger and larger, and even a plasma state appears.

After Huang Xiuyuan read the experimental design content and saw the various data on the computer, he vaguely grasped a glimmer of inspiration, but he felt that there was a layer of paper between him.

"What exactly is it?"

Hearing his soliloquy, Dr. Chen Wendong was confused: "Academician Huang, what did you say?"

Huang Xiuyuan shook his head: "Nothing, just a little bit of inspiration that I can't figure out."

Chen Wendong didn't pay too much attention, but talked about this discovery:

"The tailfield accelerator and the high-energy laser are a perfect match. They can produce positrons on such a scale. We will have no shortage of positrons in the future. However, now there is no electrostatic field and these positrons cannot be restrained. The positrons in the vacuum cavity are all related to the surrounding ones." The electron annihilates.”

Suddenly, an idea flashed in Huang Xiuyuan's mind, and he seemed to be possessed: "Annihilation of electrons? Submersion of positive and negative electrons? Yes, that's it."

"Um? Is there anything strange about the annihilation of electrons and positrons?" Dr. Chen Wendong's face was filled with questions.

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