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Physics potential and experimental challenges of the LHC luminosity upgrade

We discuss the physics potential and the experimental challenges of an upgraded LHC running at an instantaneous luminosity of 10**35 cm-2s-1. The detector R&D needed to operate ATLAS and CMS in a very high radiation environment and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 F. Gianotti , M. L. Mangano , T. Virdee

The upgrade of the LHCb Vertex Locator

The LHCb experiment is set for a significant upgrade, which will be ready for Run 3 of the LHC in 2020. This upgrade will allow LHCb to run at a significantly higher instantaneous luminosity and collect an integrated luminosity of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-23 T. Bird

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

Prospects of New Physics searches using High Lumi - LHC

After the observation of a Higgs boson near 125 GeV, the high energy physics community is investigating possible next steps for entering into a new era in particle physics. It is planned that the Large Hadron Collider will deliver an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-31 Altan Cakir

Looking for New Physics in b-decays with LHCb

This article is a short and non-exhaustive summary of the prospects to find New Physics with LHCb as was presented at the HCP conference at Toronto on August 26th 2010.

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-10-19 Frederic Teubert

Recent highlights from the LHCb experiment

The Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) detector is a single-arm forward spectrometer at the LHC, designed for the study of heavy flavour physics. In this proceedings, an overview of the detector performance and a few recent results in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-08-07 Abhijit Mathad

Implications of LHCb measurements and future prospects

During 2011 the LHCb experiment at CERN collected 1.0 fb-1 of sqrt{s} = 7 TeV pp collisions. Due to the large heavy quark production cross-sections, these data provide unprecedented samples of heavy flavoured hadrons. The first results from…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-03-20 LHCb collaboration , A. Bharucha , I. I. Bigi , C. Bobeth , M. Bobrowski , J. Brod , A. J. Buras , C. T. H. Davies , A. Datta , C. Delaunay , S. Descotes-Genon , J. Ellis , T. Feldmann , R. Fleischer , O. Gedalia , J. Girrbach , D. Guadagnoli , G. Hiller , Y. Hochberg , T. Hurth , G. Isidori , S. Jaeger , M. Jung , A. Kagan , J. F. Kamenik , A. Lenz , Z. Ligeti , D. London , F. Mahmoudi , J. Matias , S. Nandi , Y. Nir , P. Paradisi , G. Perez , A. A. Petrov , R. Rattazzi , S. R. Sharpe , L. Silvestrini , A. Soni , D. M. Straub , D. van Dyk , J. Virto , Y. -M. Wang , A. Weiler , J. Zupan. LHCb collaboration , : , R. Aaij , C. Abellan Beteta , A. Adametz , B. Adeva , M. Adinolfi , C. Adrover , A. Affolder , Z. Ajaltouni , J. Albrecht , F. Alessio , M. Alexander , S. Ali , G. Alkhazov , P. Alvarez Cartelle , A. A. Alves , S. Amato , Y. Amhis , L. Anderlini , J. Anderson , R. Andreassen , M. Anelli , R. B. Appleby , O. 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Energy deposition studies in the LHCb insertion region from the validation to a step into the Hilumi challenge

The LHCb (Large Hadron Collider beauty) experiment at CERN aims at achieving a significantly higher luminosity than originally planned by means of two major upgrades: the Upgrade I that took place during the Long Shutdown 2 (LS2) and the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Alessia Ciccotelli , Robert B. Appleby , Francesco Cerutti , Kacper Bilko , Luigi Salvatore Esposito , Ruben Garcia Alia , Anton Lechner , Andrea Tsinganis

Heavy ion physics with LHCb Upgrade II

A second major LHCb detector upgrade will be installed during long shutdown 4 (LS4) of the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The new detector will provide excellent performance for studies of Quantum Chromodynamics at high temperature and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-04-01 LHCb collaboration

First Years of Running for the LHCb Calorimeter System

The calorimeter system of LHCb is subdivided into four sub-detectors which ensure its longitudinal segmentation: a Scintillator Pad Detector (SPD) followed by a Preshower (PS) and then an electromagnetic (ECAL) an hadronic (HCAL)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Pascal Perret

New Physics Search at LHCB

Although direct detection of new particles will be the main focus of the LHC, indirect New Physics searches are expected to provide useful complementary information. In particular, precision measurements of rare processes occurring in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-05-19 A. Hicheur

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

Unleashing the full power of LHCb to probe Stealth New Physics

In this paper, we describe the potential of the LHCb experiment to detect Stealth physics. This refers to dynamics beyond the Standard Model that would elude searches that focus on energetic objects or precision measurements of known…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-09 Martino Borsato , Xabier Cid Vidal , Yuhsin Tsai , Carlos Vázquez Sierra , José Zurita , Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez , Alexey Boyarsky , Alexandre Brea Rodríguez , Diogo Buarque Franzosi , Giacomo Cacciapaglia , Adrián Casais Vidal , Mingxuan Du , Gilly Elor , Miguel Escudero , Gabriele Ferretti , Thomas Flacke , Patrick Foldenauer , Jan Hajer , Louis Henry , Philip Ilten , Jernej Kamenik , Brij Kishor Jashal , Simon Knapen , Federico Leo Redi , Matthew Low , Zuowei Liu , Arantza Oyanguren Campos , Erica Polycarpo , Maria Ramos , Miguel Ramos Pernas , Ennio Salvioni , Murilo Santana Rangel , Ruth Schäfer , Lorenzo Sestini , Yotam Soreq , Van Que Tran , Inar Timiryasov , Maarten van Veghel , Susanne Westhoff , Michael Williams , Jure Zupan

Recent LHCb results on forward physics and diffraction

The LHCb detector at the LHC offers unique coverage of forward rapidities for studies of Central Exclusive Production (CEP) and soft QCD. CEP measurements allow the investigation of the nature of pomerons, and provide constraints on low-x…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-11-17 Luke McConnell

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

Selection of LHCb results from Run I

At the eve of the second LHC data taking run, some of the most recent results obtained by the LHCb collaboration with Run I data are reviewed. Improved measurements on CP violation, unitary triangle and mixing parameters are shown. Recent…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-12-21 A. Hicheur

Brief physics survey with CMS in year one

The CMS detector is one of the two general purpose experiments that will study the collisions produced by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHC is supposed to start its operation in 2007 at an instantaneous luminosity of 2 x 10^33 cm-2…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 G. Bruno

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

LHCb results from proton ion collisions

Proton-lead and lead-proton data taking during 2013 has allowed LHCb to expand its physics program to heavy ion physics. Results include the first forward measurement of Z production in proton-lead collisions as well as a measurement of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-07-20 Laure Massacrier

Fixed-target physics at LHCb

The LHCb experiment has the unique possibility, among the LHC experiments, to be operated in fixed target mode, using its internal gas target SMOG. The energy scale achievable at the LHC and the excellent detector capabilities for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-18 Emilie Maurice