Celebrating a masterpiece of particle physics and Industry Awards
The LHC Run 2 ended on December 3, see the corresponding news. The current experiment will be largely dismantled and…
End of the first phase and beginning of a new LHCb
End of 2018 data taking period marking the end of Run 2. At the end of every year, the CERN…
New particles and precise measurements
The LHCb Collaboration presented new interesting results at the Large Hadron Collider Committee (LHCC) open session and at the CKM…
Puzzling measurement of the Ωc0 charmed baryon lifetime
[ τ(Ωc0) = 268±24±10±2 fs ] Today the LHCb collaboration submitted for publication the result of a measurement of the…
Re-discovery of an exceptionally charming particle
[ m(Ξcc++) = 3621.55±0.23±0.30 MeV/c2 ] A year ago the LHCb collaboration announced the observation of an exceptionally charmed particle,…
HeRSCheL looks even further forward
First physics results with the HeRSCheL detector. In a typical proton-proton collision at the LHC, proton constituents, quarks or gluons,…
Long life(time) of the exceptionally charmed particle Ξcc++
[ τ(Ξcc++) = 0.256+0.024-0.022±0.014 ps ] Last year the LHCb Collaboration announced the observation of an exceptionally charmed particle, the…
New results presented at the Quark Matter Conference
The activities of the LHCb collaboration have expanded far beyond the original core aims. The excellent performance of the detector…
Start of 2018 data taking period
The 2018 data taking period started officially today. The last 2017 proton-proton collisions took place on 28 November and the…
Observation of a new particle consistent with long-hunted Eggs ball
Update 2 April 2018: see explanation here. Today, at the Rencontres de Cuisine, the LHCb collaboration announced the observation of…