Heavy Ion collisions ended 2023 data taking period
The 2023 data-taking period ended this morning at 4 am. This year LHCb started taking data on April 14 with proton-proton collisions and ended today with lead-lead heavy ion collisions.…
Second life of the LHCb’s Outer Tracker at GSI
The Outer Tracker (OT) is the largest component of tracking system in the original version of the LHCb detector. It was replaced by the Scintillating Fibre (SciFi) sub-detector in the…
New observation of hypertriton and antihypertriton production in LHC proton-proton collisions
Today, at the European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP), the LHCb Collaboration reported its first observation of hypertritons and antihypertritons using Run 2 data collected between 2016…
Vincenzo Vagnoni, Patrick Robbe and Ulrich Uwer – new management for the LHCb Collaboration
Vincenzo Vagnoni from the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN, Bologna) begins tomorrow his three-year tenure as LHCb spokesperson. He takes over from Chris Parkes from the University of Manchester.…
Precise measurement of the unitarity triangle angle β
Today, at the CERN seminar, the LHCb collaboration presented an important result in our quest to understand the nature and origin of CP violation, which is a difference in behaviour…
Precise measurement of the CP-violating phase φs
Today at the CERN seminar the LHCb Collaboration presented the world’s best measurement of the CP-violating phase φs in Bs0 meson decays into J/ψK+K–. The phase φs plays a similar…
Upstream Tracker closing completes installation of the LHCb Upgrade 1 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…
Test of Lepton Flavour Universality using a measurement of R(D*) with hadronic τ decays
Today, at the CERN seminar, the LHCb Collaboration presented a new test of lepton universality, one of the basic principles of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics. This principle…
Inauguration of the LHCb exhibition
Today a brand new LHCb exhibition was inaugurated at a gathering of LHCb collaborators and members of the CERN Education, Communications and Outreach team. The exhibition, which is located in…
LHCb’s unique approach to real-time data processing
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…