Heavy Ion collisions ended 2023 data taking period
The 2023 data-taking period ended this morning at 4 am. This year LHCb started taking data on April 14 with proton-proton collisions and ended today with lead-lead heavy ion collisions.…
Second life of the LHCb’s Outer Tracker at GSI
The Outer Tracker (OT) is the largest component of tracking system in the original version of the LHCb detector. It was replaced by the Scintillating Fibre (SciFi) sub-detector in the…
Vincenzo Vagnoni, Patrick Robbe and Ulrich Uwer – new management for the LHCb Collaboration
Vincenzo Vagnoni from the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN, Bologna) begins tomorrow his three-year tenure as LHCb spokesperson. He takes over from Chris Parkes from the University of Manchester.…
Inauguration of the LHCb exhibition
Today a brand new LHCb exhibition was inaugurated at a gathering of LHCb collaborators and members of the CERN Education, Communications and Outreach team. The exhibition, which is located in…
Celebrating LHCb’s 600th publication
The LHCb collaboration has submitted its 600th publication! The first LHCb paper was submitted in August 2010, and since then 50 to 70 papers were submitted per year, about one…
Chris Parkes and Matteo Palutan – new management for the LHCb Collaboration
Chris Parkes from the University of Manchester begins tomorrow his three-year tenure as LHCb spokesperson. He takes over from Giovanni Passaleva from the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Firenze.…
LHCb Industry Awards 2019
The LHC Run 2 ended a year ago. The LHCb experiment has been largely dismantled and an almost completely new detector is under construction in these very days: a new…
Celebrating LHCb’s 500th publication
The LHCb collaboration has submitted its 500th publication! The first LHCb paper was submitted in August 2010, and since then 50 to 70 papers were submitted per year. All LHCb…
Celebrating a masterpiece of particle physics and Industry Awards
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 the first phase and beginning of a new LHCb
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,…