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,…
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…
“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…