Observation of two ccus tetraquarks and two ccss tetraquarks
Welcome to tetraquark discovery territory Today, the LHCb Collaboration submitted a paper for publication that reports the first observation of…
LHC as a Large Hadron Discovery Factory
The LHC, Large Hadron Collider, is a particle collider in which accelerated protons collide inside four large experiments. Hadrons (Greek:…
Observation of a four-charm-quark tetraquark
A “smoking gun” for tightly bound tetraquarks? Today, the LHCb collaboration submitted a paper reporting the discovery of a possible…
More on χc1(3872) puzzle
Today, the LHCb collaboration submitted two papers reporting precise measurements of the properties of a mysterious particle χc1(3872), also known…
Observation of new Ξc0 baryons
Today, the LHCb collaboration submitted a paper reporting a system of three particles interpreted as three narrow excited Ξc0 –…
B0→K*μ+μ-: more data confirm old puzzle
Today at the CERN seminar, the LHCb collaboration presented an analysis of the angular distributions of B0→K*μ+μ– decays. The measurement…
Observation of a new beauty baryon particle
Today at the Winter Meeting on Nuclear Physics, Bormio, Italy, the LHCb collaboration announced the discovery of a new beauty…
Beautiful charming and magic Ω baryons
First observation of excited Ωb– states. Today, the LHCb collaboration submitted a paper reporting a new system of four particles…
Test of lepton universality with beauty baryons, RpK
Today the LHCb Collaboration submitted for publication a measurement of the ratio RpK. This tests a principle of the Standard…
Celebrating LHCb’s 500th publication
The LHCb collaboration has submitted its 500th publication! The first LHCb paper was submitted in August 2010, and since then…