Teachers at LHCb
37 school teachers from all over the world visited CERN to participate in the High School Teachers programme. » see explanations
LHCb catches a glimpse of the LHC beam
Computer images of the first beam through beam through LHCb (see video on YouTube or CERN CDS) The LHC’s anti-clockwise beam transfer system was tested over the weekend June 6-7,…
Angels and Demons
In the movie Angels and Demons the Illuminati have stolen antimatter from CERN in order to destroy Vatican. But what is antimatter? Is is real? Is it dangerous? What is…
Nobel Prize in Physics
Laureates: Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa.The LHCb Collaboration is deeply grateful to the laureates for having prepared a precise theoretical framework in which we will try to understand why…
First beam day
As the beam of protons made its first full circuit of the LHC, the experiment’s detectors recorded the exciting moment: the cherenkov detectors RICH1 and RICH2, the muon chambers and…
Cosmic success at LHCb
For the first time the LHCb team has measured cosmic rays hurtling through three of the experiment’s subdetectors simultaneously, selected by muon triggers. » Read the Bulletin article
A symphony of data
For the first time, the LHCb control room team managed to extract a symphony of data from an almost complete ensemble of LHCb detectors. » Read the Bulletin article