Installation of the VELO
One half of the Vertex Locator (VELO) has landed at the LHCb experiment hall. The VELO detector will be located…
Installation of SciFi
Yesterday two frames of the scintillating fibre tracker (SciFi) were installed in the detector. They are placed on the other…
Successful beam pipe installation at LHCb
For detailled informations, see the bulletin article
HeRSCheL looks even further forward
First physics results with the HeRSCheL detector. In a typical proton-proton collision at the LHC, proton constituents, quarks or gluons,…
No diploma without LHCb Vertex Locator
The baccalauréat, often known in France colloquially as le bac, is an academic qualification which French and international students take…
“Underground” news
The last run 1 collisions took place at LHCb on February 2013. The proton beams should traverse again LHCb in…
LHCb VErtex LOcator VELO
At LHCb the protons collide inside the VErtex LOcator detector (VELO). The VELO is composed of two halves, each consisting…
Excellent performance of LHCb Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detectors
The physics results presented on this web page were obtained thanks to the excellent LHC collider performance, to the excellent…
First Cerenkov rings
first (two) rings produced by Cherenkov light emitted by cosmic particles in the two radiators of RICH1 have been observed.…
LHCb catches a glimpse of the LHC beam
Computer images of the first beam through beam through LHCb (see video on YouTube or CERN CDS) The LHC’s anti-clockwise…