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, interact and move to opposite directions. They are interconnected by…
Long life(time) of the exceptionally charmed particle Ξcc++
Last year the LHCb Collaboration announced the observation of an exceptionally charmed particle, the Ξcc++ baryon. This contains two charm quarks and one up quark, resulting in an overall doubly…
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 has allowed the experiment to make important contributions to a…
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 LHC machine was shut down during the winter period to…
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 a new particle consistent with the properties of the long-hunted…
Interesting results presented at the Rencontres de Moriond
The LHCb Collaboration presented new interesting results at the Rencontres de Moriond EW and at the Rencontres de Moriond QCD. A few selected items are listed below. (1) Search for…
“Grand Unification” of data taking
End of data taking for 2017. The 2017 data taking period ended this Sunday. Towards the end of the 2017 run at the centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, the LHC…
Implications of LHCb measurements
This week LHCb physicists met with the theory community in the 7th yearly workshop “Implications of LHCb measurements and future prospects”. The purpose of the meeting is to consider the…
First xenon-xenon collisions at the LHC
Yesterday evening the first xenon-xenon ion collisions took place at LHC and the run lasted for seven hours. The left image below shows the corresponding LHC control screen announcing the…
New avenue to precision mass measurements of the χc1 and χc2 mesons
Today, at the open session of the Large Hadron Collider Committee, LHCC, the LHCb collaboration presented the result of a precise mass measurements of χc1 and χc2 mesons, performed for…