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…
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…
6 fb-1 : celebrating “Jeûne genevois”
The LHCb collaboration has reached a symbolic milestone this morning, announcing that the experiment has recorded a luminosity of 6 fb-1 integrated over the whole period of data taking 2010-2017.…
Hélène Langevin-Joliot visited the LHCb detector cavern
Hélène Langevin-Joliot visited today the LHCb detector cavern during a short LHC Technical Stop (left image). She is the Emeritus Research Director in Fundamental Nuclear Physics at CNRS in Orsay…
Giovanni Passaleva and Chris Parkes – new management for the LHCb Collaboration
Giovanni Passaleva from the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Firenze begins today his 3-year tenure as LHCb spokesperson. He takes over from Guy Wilkinson from the University of Oxford.…
Start of 2017 data taking period
Today proton-proton collisions for physics restarted again after a 5 month “Extended Year End Technical Stop”. This traditional winter shut-down period was “extended” due to major installation work carried out…
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…