Tag: LHCb
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LHCb explores new physics in special light-ion LHC runs
LHCb explores new physics in special light-ion LHC runs The LHC carried out a special run programme early summer. First results were reported by the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb experiments at the Initial Stages of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions conference. These results were also presented at a CERN seminar and reported in a CERN news.
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SMOG(2) at LHCb: a space experiment and a bowling alley
SMOG(2) at LHCb: a space experiment and a bowling alley A famous aphorism, sometimes attributed to Max Planck, goes “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change”. Since 2011, the LHCb experiment at the LHC has employed a System for Measuring Overlap with Gas (SMOG) to inject gas
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LHCb Upgrade II Scoping Document
LHCb Upgrade II Scoping Document CERN Research Board backs “Middle” scope for LHCb Upgrade II With the CERN Research Board’s endorsement on 14 April 2025, the LHCb Upgrade II Scoping Document has cleared its critical design-scope review, moving the project from proposal to implementation. The Board’s recommendation that the collaboration pursue the Middle configuration—one of
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New Milestones in direct CP Violation: Observation in Baryons and First Evidence in Beauty Mesons to J/Psi
New Milestones in direct CP Violation: Observation in Baryons and First Evidence in Beauty Mesons to J/Psi A Milestone in Understanding the Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry The LHCb collaboration has announced a groundbreaking achievement: the first-ever observation of CP violation in baryon decays. This result, presented at the Rencontres de Moriond EW conference and submitted for publication
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Tracing the Path to Precision: The Historical Evolution of Electroweak Physics at the LHC
Tracing the Path to Precision: The Historical Evolution of Electroweak Physics at the LHC The unification of the electromagnetic and weak-nuclear forces into an electroweak theory was one of the major breakthroughs of 20th century particle physics. In the 1960s, Steven Weinberg, Sheldon Glashow, and Abdus Salam proposed that these two forces, which appear at
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LHC Run 3: A Marathon of Progress and Perseverance
LHC Run 3: A Marathon of Progress and Perseverance Earlier this month, the Large Hadron Collider reached an unprecedented milestone of 100 inverse femtobarns – equivalent to 10 million billion collisions – delivered to the ATLAS and CMS experiments in 2024, with 28 days of proton-proton collisions remaining. This marks a historic first in a
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Navigating Challenges: LHCb’s Milestone Achievements and Intensive Data Collection in 2024
Navigating Challenges: LHCb's Milestone Achievements and Intensive Data Collection in 2024 Photo of LHCb collaboration members gathered in the control room in April 2024. The LHCb experiment achieved significant milestones by the end of 2023, despite the challenges related to the LHC vacuum incident in the Vertex Locator (VELO) volume and the premature stop of
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Machine Learning in action: shaping the future of LHCb and fostering cross-experiment collaboration
Machine Learning in action: shaping the future of LHCb and fostering cross-experiment collaboration Common challenges and the democratic nature of ML are building new bridges across experiments. The LHCb experiment is ramping up its R&D efforts in Machine Learning (ML), while also addressing the challenges of deploying ML in production and fostering multi-experiment collaborations. Why?
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Unlocking New Possibilities: LHCb’s Latest Open Data Releases
Unlocking New Possibilities: LHCb's Latest Open Data Releases The LHCb collaboration at CERN continues to pioneer open science by releasing significant datasets to the public, offering researchers, educators, and enthusiasts around the world unprecedented access to data that fuels new discoveries and deepens our understanding of the universe. In a landmark move on December 20,
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Exploration with LHCb: from unseen to rare
Exploration with LHCb: from unseen to rare Flavour physics, even at low-energy scales, offers a glimpse at energy scales far higher than those reachable directly thanks to the quantum loop effects, which are present in the quark transitions. The rarer or more suppressed a given transition is within the standard model (SM) of particle physics,