Category: 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.…

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…

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 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.…

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…

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…

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 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,…

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…

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…