Orion Crest, Series_1

Chapter 69: Desperation

　　On the third day after Syracuse University's report was called back, the presentation on Stewart's side was held as scheduled.

　　The acceptors sent by LHCb sat in the first row and quietly waited for the presentation to begin.

　　Meanwhile, the research team from Syracuse University was there, sitting on the side of the corridor against the right hand side of the meeting room.

　　There was a laptop on the table, and Carella was staring at the podium with her paper cupped in her hand.

　　When she saw the person who stepped up to the podium, the corners of her mouth suddenly curled into a smile.

　　Good.

　　She thought he had wimped out.

　　Unexpectedly, there was still some guts.

　　The PPT began to be shown.

　　Not noticing that particular sight, Orion briefly tried the microphone and began to speak.

　　Again, it was a thirty minute speech.

　　The last ten to fifteen minutes were for questions.

　　After giving a brief and clear report of the month's work, Orion looked to the audience under the podium.

　　"That's the situation, the data confirmation for section B1, the Dalitz plot is on the PPT, any more questions?"

　　There was silence on the stage.

　　No one was asking questions.

　　To be precise, there were people who wanted to ask questions, but they simply couldn't find where the point was that they could take issue with.

　　Looking purposefully in the direction of the Syracuse University research team, Orion had thought that they would stand up to give him a hard time, but he was surprised that what he had expected didn't happen.

　　However, it wasn't like he couldn't understand.

　　After all, this kind of testing nature of the work, does not require any innovative methods, and even the results are known to everyone.B1 data must not be a problem, the pentaquark state will certainly be found ......

　　So trying to pick holes in the theory is almost impossible.

　　Even if one wanted to deliberately nitpick, it would only be possible to nitpick from the data.

　　Yesterday he deliberately spent a whole day with Joannes, the two of them, checking the work over the past month, from beginning to end, to make sure that no problems had been found.

　　If they hadn't found any problems, Orion really didn't believe that they could still find faults.

　　......

　　There was a quiet wait of five minutes and no one raised their hands.

　　The acceptance officer from the LHCb side stepped up to the podium, briefly summarised the presentation, routinely thanked the researchers involved in the project, and declared the acceptance approved.

　　This paper will be included in the archives of the LHCb project as a research result.

　　As the lecture came to an end, the people in the venue began to exit one by one.

　　"This is impossible ......"

　　Staring at the papers, Carella's eyes were wide with disbelief.