The magic of the Ωc baryon
Observation of five new narrow Ωc0 excited states. As NASA announced a few days ago the discovery of the first system of seven Earth-size planets orbiting around a single star,…
New results presented at the Rencontres de la Vallée d’Aoste
The LHCb collaboration presented several new results at the 31st Rencontres de Physique de la Vallée d’Aoste taking place this week in La Thuile, Italy. A few selected items are…
First single experiment observation of the decay Bs0→ μ+μ-
From discovery to precision measurement. Today, in a seminar at CERN, the LHCb collaboration presented the first observation by a single experiment of the decay Bs0→μ+μ–, with a statistical significance…
Measurement of matter-antimatter differences in beauty baryon decays
Towards an important milestone in particle physics. The LHCb collaboration has published today in Nature Physics the first evidence for the violation of the CP symmetry in baryon decays with…
New results presented at the CKM workshop
The LHCb collaboration presented several new results at the 9th International Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle (CKM2016) taking place this week at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in…
Charming time asymmetries
The LHCb collaboration presented many new interesting results at the VIIIth International Workshop on Charm Physics (Charm 2016) which took place in Bologna. In particular, precise measurements on the difference…
Observation of four exotic-like particles
Today the LHCb collaboration has submitted for publication two papers (one brief, and the other one containing full details) reporting the observation of four “exotic” particles decaying into a J/ψ…
The most precise measurement of the assl asymmetry
Last week at the 16th International Conference on B-Physics at Frontier Machines, “Beauty 2016”, Marseille, France, the LHCb collaboration presented the updated result of a measurement of the semileptonic asymmetry,…
World’s most precise measurements
and search for the X(5568) tetraquark candidate
The LHCb Collaboration has presented today at the Rencontres de Moriond EW new important results. (1) CKM γ angle measurements. The parameters that describe the difference in behaviour between matter…
A mysterious ridge effect
The LHCb collaboration has submitted today a paper reporting the study of correlations in particle production in proton-lead ion collisions at the LHC. The plots (see below) showing the angular…