Celebrating 200th publication
The LHCb Collaboration has celebrated this week its 200th publication! The paper “Test of lepton universality using B+ → K+l+l– decays“ appeared in Physical Review Letters on October 6th. The…
How bright is the LHC?
LHCb has the most precise answer. The LHCb Collaboration has just published the results of the luminosity calibration with a precision of 1.12%. This is the most precise luminosity measurement…
LHChamber Music
Today, CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is blowing out 60 candles at an event attended by official delegations from 35 countries. Founded in 1954, CERN is today the…
Guy Wilkinson and Monica Pepe Altarelli – new management for the LHCb Collaboration
Guy Wilkinson from the University of Oxford begins today his 3-year tenure as LHCb spokesperson. He replaces Pierluigi Campana from the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Frascati. Monica Pepe…
2013 Nobel prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2013 to François Englert and Peter Higgs for “the…
LHCb: a place to find penguins
How “penguins” can help LHCb to chase for new physics? – read explanations in the June issue of CERN Courier and then follow links to the LHCb physics results announced…
LHCb PhD student wins the Swiss FameLab competition
Donal Hill, LHCb PhD student, was nominated as the best Swiss FameLabber 2013 during the Swiss FameLab final in Zurich. Nine candidates selected in a previous heat in Geneva were…
LHCb physicist rewarded by the European Physical Society
The High Energy Physics Division of the European Physical Society announced today the winners of its 2013 prizes, which will be awarded at the Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics (EPS-HEP…
LHCb 100th publication
The LHCb Collaboration has submitted its 100th publication! It is signed by 621 authors from 63 different universities and laboratories from 17 countries. The paper “Search for direct CP violation…