LHCb looks to the future
After a very succesful 2011 data taking period the LHCb Collaboration is preparing next year’s operation. The first 2012 collisions should be observed in April. At the same time LHCb…
CP violation in charm decays
[ ΔACP = (-0.82 ± 0.21 ± 0.11)% ] The LHCb Collaboration has presented today at the Hadron Collider Particle Symposium in Paris possible first evidence for CP violation, the…
End of 2011 proton-proton collision data taking period
The 2011 proton-proton collision data taking period has ended today. LHC collider and LHCb experiment have been working extremaly well. LHCb has recorded all in all an impressive 1.1 fb-1…
LHCb film shortlisted by Japan Prize Festival
“LHCb – A Beauty Experiment”, a short documentary on LHCb, has been shortlisted by the NHK Japan Prize Festival. Every year, the festival awards the very best in global educational…
1 fb-1 of luminosity has been delivered to LHCb
This is a very important milestone for LHCb which will allow LHCb physicists to reach an unprecedented accuracy in most of the core physics processes that are under study. Read…
φs: different properties of matter and antimatter for Bs mesons
[ φs = 0.03 ± 0.16 ± 0.07 ] LHCb physicists have presented today the most precise measurement of φs (the Bs mixing phase, for experts) at the Lepton Photon…
Hunting for New Physics continues
[ Branching ratio B0s →μμ < 1.2×10-8 at 90% CL and 1.5×10-8 at 95% CL ] LHCb physicists continue their search for new physics, see 8 April 2011 news for…
Hunting more for New Physics
LHCb Physicists have also presented results of their search for new physics using the B0d (composed of a beauty antiquark (b) bound with a down quark d) decay into an…
Different properties of matter and antimatter
An important part of the LHCb physics programme is reserved for studying differences between the properties of matter and antimatter (CP violation for experts). At the EPS-HEP meeting in Grenoble…
Pierluigi Campana – new spokesperson for the LHCb collaboration
Pierluigi Campana from the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Frascati, begins his 3-year tenure as LHCb spokesperson this June. He replaces Andrei Golutvin, from Imperial College London and Russia’s…