Run 2 Year 2 physics commissioning with stable beams
This night the LHC collider has reached the “Stable Beam” state for the first time this year following the traditional LHC winter shut-down and the collider restart commissioning procedure. In…
Theatre of Dreams: LHCb looks to future
80 physicists gathered in Manchester on April 6th and 7th to discuss the future of the LHCb experiment. The LHCb collaboration is currently constructing a significant upgrade to its experiment…
Awards of the LHCb Kaggle competition
The world’s community of machine learning data scientists organizes “Kaggle” competitions to solve the most difficult and interesting challenges in different fields. This year, for the first time, a competition…
20 birthday candles for LHCb
In August 1995 a Letter of Intent was submitted for LHCb, the world’s first dedicated b-physics experiment at a hadron collider. Today, the LHCb Collaboration has marked the 20th anniversary…
Revolutionary improvement of data acquisition and analysis
The first integrated data-taking and analysis in a High Energy Physics experiment. The procedure of data-taking and analysis at hadron colliders is performed in two steps. In the first one,…
First Physics at 13 TeV
LHC Run 2 started today. LHCb physicists have been eagerly awaiting this moment since 14 February 2013 when the last Run 1 collisions took place. The LHC has reached the…
First 13 TeV collisions
Today, proton beams collided at 13 TeV for the first time inside the LHCb detector. The collisions were part of the ongoing accelerator tests, and are not useful for physics…
First 2015 proton-proton collisions
Today, for the first time in over two years, protons have collided inside the LHCb detector. Each proton beam had an energy of 450 GeV, which is the value they…
LHC proton beams are circulating again
Today, for the first time in two years, both proton beams are circulating again in the LHC. The picture shows the LHC operators steering the two beams. The proton beam…
The proton beam has traversed the LHCb detector
The LHCb collaboration is ready to take 13 TeV proton-proton collision data. This weekend the LHC proton beam has traversed the LHCb detector for the first time in over two…