The VELO team is the fastest
Last week the LHCb Running Team, VELOcity, won the first place in its category (senior) during the traditional CERN Relay Race. Contrary to statements of other competitors, based on the…
The most precise measurement of the assl asymmetry
Last week at the 16th International Conference on B-Physics at Frontier Machines, “Beauty 2016”, Marseille, France, the LHCb collaboration presented the updated result of a measurement of the semileptonic asymmetry,…
Run 2 Year 2 physics commissioning with stable beams
This night the LHC collider has reached the “Stable Beam” state for the first time this year following the traditional LHC winter shut-down and the collider restart commissioning procedure. In…
Theatre of Dreams: LHCb looks to future
80 physicists gathered in Manchester on April 6th and 7th to discuss the future of the LHCb experiment. The LHCb collaboration is currently constructing a significant upgrade to its experiment…
World’s most precise measurements
and search for the X(5568) tetraquark candidate
The LHCb Collaboration has presented today at the Rencontres de Moriond EW new important results. (1) CKM γ angle measurements. The parameters that describe the difference in behaviour between matter…
Awards of the LHCb Kaggle competition
The world’s community of machine learning data scientists organizes “Kaggle” competitions to solve the most difficult and interesting challenges in different fields. This year, for the first time, a competition…
A mysterious ridge effect
The LHCb collaboration has submitted today a paper reporting the study of correlations in particle production in proton-lead ion collisions at the LHC. The plots (see below) showing the angular…
20 birthday candles for LHCb
In August 1995 a Letter of Intent was submitted for LHCb, the world’s first dedicated b-physics experiment at a hadron collider. Today, the LHCb Collaboration has marked the 20th anniversary…
Revolutionary improvement of data acquisition and analysis
The first integrated data-taking and analysis in a High Energy Physics experiment. The procedure of data-taking and analysis at hadron colliders is performed in two steps. In the first one,…
A measurement of a fundamental parameter of the Standard Model
The LHCb collaboration has submitted a paper based on run 1 data which reports the measurement of a fundamental parameter of the Standard Model (SM), the electroweak mixing angle, θW.…