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…
The proton beam knocks at the LHC door
The LHCb collaboration took proton interaction data this weekend. The proton beam knocked at the LHC’s very solid door this weekend and found it still closed, but nonetheless managed to…
LHCb at the Open Data portal
The LHC experiments have today released physics data at the OpenData.cern.ch portal. The LHCb collaboration has contributed with its International Masterclasses exercise, in which the lifetime of the charm particle…