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Status of the LHCb detector

LHCb is an experiment dedicated to study CP violation and other rare phenomena in B mesons decays with very high precision. It is one of the four experiments that will operate at the 14Tev proton-proton Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-11-05 Pablo Vazquez-Regueiro

LHCb Detector Performance

The LHCb detector is a forward spectrometer at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The experiment is designed for precision measurements of CP violation and rare decays of beauty and charm hadrons. In this paper the performance of the…

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Status and Physics Reach of LHCb

LHCb is the experiment at the Large Hadron Collider devoted to studies of new phenomena in CP violation and in rare decays. This review summarizes the status of the experiment in the imminence of the data taking, the prospects for the first…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-03-16 Marta Calvi

Overview of LHCb

An overview of LHCb experiment is given, focusing on detector, trigger and expected physics performances. LHCb is a second generation b physics experiment design to do precise measurements of CP violation in B meson system and to study b…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 H. Terrier

Status and expected performance of the LHCb experiment

LHCb is a dedicated b-physics experiment at the future LHC collider. Its construction has started and it will be ready to take data from the start of LHC operation, scheduled in 2007, and directly at its full physics potential. LHCb will…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-11-11 Pascal Perret

Trigger, reconstruction and physics performances in LHCb

LHCb is one of the four major experiments that will take data at the LHC, due to start operation in 2007. The primary aims of LHCb are to perform precision tests of CP violation and to search for new physics in b hadron decays. About 10^12…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-07-09 Cristina Lazzeroni

Prospects for New Physics in CP Violation and Rare Decays at LHCb

LHCb is the heavy flavour precision experiment of the proton-proton Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. It will search for new physics in CP violation and rare decays and is ready for the start-up of the LHC. An overview of its physics…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Pascal Perret

Status of the LHCb Experiment

We present the status of the LHCb experiment which will make precision measurements of CP violation in $B$ meson decays. The motivation for the experiment and an overview of the detector design are given. The vertex detector, ring imaging…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-11-11 Franz Muheim

$B \to X_{s} \gamma$ and $B \to X_{s} l^{+} l^{-}$ decays at LHCb

\lhcb is one of the four major experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (\lhc) at CERN. It is custom built to look for CP violation and New Physics in rare decays of heavy flavour hadrons, like the B and D systems. Rare decays that occur…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-03-18 Fatima Soomro

LHCb commissioning and readiness for first data

LHCb has been installed by spring 2008, followed by intensive testing and commissioning of the system in order to be ready for first data taking. Despite the horizontal geometry of the LHCb detector it was possible to collect over one…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Helge Voss

Review of CP Violation Studies with B-Mesons at LHC

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) proposed at CERN will be the ultimate source of B-mesons. With the large number of B-mesons expected at LHC, a real precision test of CP violation in B-meson decays will become possible. There are already…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-08-31 Tatsuya Nakada

The history of LHCb

In this paper we describe the history of the LHCb experiment over the last three decades, and its remarkable successes and achievements. LHCb was conceived primarily as a b-physics experiment, dedicated to CP violation studies and…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 I. Belyaev , G. Carboni , N. Harnew , C. Matteuzzi. F. Teubert

Conceptualization, implementation, and commissioning of real-time analysis in the High Level Trigger of the LHCb experiment

LHCb is a general purpose forward detector located at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Although initially optimized for the study of hadrons containing beauty quarks, the better than expected performance of the detector hardware and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-29 Vladimir Vava Gligorov

The Beam Conditions Monitor of the LHCb Experiment

The LHCb experiment at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is dedicated to precision measurements of CP violation and rare decays of B hadrons. Its most sensitive components are protected by means of a Beam Conditions…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-01-15 Ch. Ilgner , M. Domke M. Lieng , M. Nedos , J. Sauerbrey , S. Schleich , B. Spaan , K. Warda , J. Wishahi

LHCb prospects for full energy and beyond (incl. upgrades)

The LHCb experiment is running at the Large Hadron Collider to study CP violation and rare decays in the beauty and charm sectors. The physics potential is given for five key observables sensitive to new physics in nominal conditions. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 R. Le Gac

The LHCb Upgrade

The LHCb experiment is designed to perform high-precision measurements of CP violation and search for New Physics using the enormous flux involving beauty and charm quarks produced at the LHC. The operation and the results obtained from the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-10-02 Federico Alessio

Future prospects at LHCb

The LHCb experiment is running at the Large Hadron Collider to study CP violation and rare decays in the beauty and charm sectors. The motivation and the strategy of the upgrade envisaged for the long shutdown LS2 (2018) is presented. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Marie-Hélène Schune

A $b$-baryon sonata

LHCb is one of the four experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (CERN), dedicated to the study of b-hadrons. Throughout my research, I studied in particular b-baryons which are abundantly produced at the LHCb. My habilitation summarises…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-05-25 Yasmine Sara Amhis

The LHCb experiment: status and recent results

The LHCb experiment is one of the major research projects at the Large Hadron Collider. Its acceptance and instrumentation is optimised to perform high-precision studies of flavour physics and particle production in a unique kinematic range…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-06-25 Dmytro Volyanskyy

CP violation in charm and beauty decays at LHCb

LHCb is a dedicated heavy flavour physics precision experiment at the LHC searching for New Physics (NP) beyond the Standard Model (SM) through the study of very rare decays of beauty and charm-flavoured hadrons and precision measurements…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-12 Monica Pepe Altarelli