Category: Detector

Start of 2023 data taking. Recently the Upstream Tracker (UT), a sub-detector of the LHCb experiment, was closed around the LHC beam pipe. This event marked the completion of the…

The LHCb collaboration is currently enhancing its unique system of data filtering, Real Time Analysis, by installing a 2nd set of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) in the trigger system. Current…

Today the two halves of new Vertex Locator (VELO) approached the LHC proton-proton collision point for the first time. This process is called “VELO closing” in the LHCb jargon. The…

Start of LHC Run 3. Today, at 16:47, protons collided again at LHCb after a 3.5 year break known as Long Shutdown 2 (LS2). During this period the original LHCb…

One half of the Vertex Locator (VELO) has landed at the LHCb experiment hall. The VELO detector will be located very tightly around the collision point. As the name suggests,…

Yesterday two frames of the scintillating fibre tracker (SciFi) were installed in the detector. They are placed on the other side of the magnet. Together with the VeLo, they will…

For detailled informations, see the bulletin article

First physics results with the HeRSCheL detector. In a typical proton-proton collision at the LHC, proton constituents, quarks or gluons, interact and move to opposite directions. They are interconnected by…

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The last run 1 collisions took place at LHCb on February 2013. The proton beams should traverse again LHCb in early 2015. The period in between is called Long Shutdown…