Year: 2018

The LHC Run 2 ended on December 3, see the corresponding news. The current experiment will be largely dismantled and an almost completely new detector constructed during the two-year-long shutdown:…

End of 2018 data taking period marking the end of Run 2. At the end of every year, the CERN accelerator complex ends its operation for the usual winter shutdown,…

The LHCb Collaboration presented new interesting results at the Large Hadron Collider Committee (LHCC) open session and at the CKM workshop in Heidelberg. Selected topics are listed below. (1) Observation…

[ τ(Ωc0) = 268±24±10±2 fs ] Today the LHCb collaboration submitted for publication the result of a measurement of the lifetime of the Ωc0 baryon, i.e. a composite particle composed…

[ m(Ξcc++) = 3621.55±0.23±0.30 MeV/c2 ] A year ago the LHCb collaboration announced the observation of an exceptionally charmed particle, the Ξcc++ baryon. This particle contains two charm quarks and…

First physics results with the HeRSCheL detector. In a typical proton-proton collision at the LHC, proton constituents, quarks or gluons, interact and move to opposite directions. They are interconnected by…

[ 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 Ξcc++ baryon. This contains two charm quarks and one up…

The activities of the LHCb collaboration have expanded far beyond the original core aims. The excellent performance of the detector has allowed the experiment to make important contributions to a…

The 2018 data taking period started officially today. The last 2017 proton-proton collisions took place on 28 November and the LHC machine was shut down during the winter period to…

Update 2 April 2018: see explanation here. Today, at the Rencontres de Cuisine, the LHCb collaboration announced the observation of a new particle consistent with the properties of the long-hunted…