The magic of the Ωc baryon
Observation of five new narrow Ωc0 excited states. As NASA announced a few days ago the discovery of the first system of seven Earth-size planets orbiting around a single star,…
New results presented at the Rencontres de la Vallée d’Aoste
The LHCb collaboration presented several new results at the 31st Rencontres de Physique de la Vallée d’Aoste taking place this week in La Thuile, Italy. A few selected items are…
First single experiment observation of the decay Bs0→ μ+μ-
From discovery to precision measurement. Today, in a seminar at CERN, the LHCb collaboration presented the first observation by a single experiment of the decay Bs0→μ+μ–, with a statistical significance…
Measurement of matter-antimatter differences in beauty baryon decays
Towards an important milestone in particle physics. The LHCb collaboration has published today in Nature Physics the first evidence for the violation of the CP symmetry in baryon decays with…
End of 2016 data taking period
The 2016 data taking period ended this morning. This was a very successful year, both because of the excellent performance of the accelerator and of the LHCb experiment itself. The…
New results presented at the CKM workshop
The LHCb collaboration presented several new results at the 9th International Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle (CKM2016) taking place this week at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in…
Charming time asymmetries
The LHCb collaboration presented many new interesting results at the VIIIth International Workshop on Charm Physics (Charm 2016) which took place in Bologna. In particular, precise measurements on the difference…
Excellent performance of LHC and LHCb
The LHC collider and the LHCb detector continue to work very well. LHCb has collected already 1 fb-1 (integrated luminosity) of data this year, three times more than in 2015.…
New results presented at the traditional ICHEP conference
The LHCb collaboration presented this week new results at the 38th International Conference on High Energy Physics, ICHEP, which is taking place place at Chicago. A few selected items are…
Observation of four exotic-like particles
Today the LHCb collaboration has submitted for publication two papers (one brief, and the other one containing full details) reporting the observation of four “exotic” particles decaying into a J/ψ…