Tag: LHCb
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LHCb prepares for the major upgrade in LS2
LHCb prepares for the major upgrade in LS2 Following the excellent performance of the LHC machine and after a very successful year for LHCb with a recorded luminosity of 1.7 fb-1 over the year 2017 LHCb goes now into the Years-End-Technical-Stop YETS. The experiment has taken data very efficiently with a detector operating smoothly over
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LHCb collaboration meets to discuss recent results and future prospects
LHCb collaboration meets to discuss recent results and future prospects A record number of over three hundred physicists from the LHCb collaboration and the theory community got together on 8-10 November at CERN for the seventh edition of the workshop on the “Implications of LHCb measurements and future prospects”. The very accurate results obtained by
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Scintillation light at the end of the tunnel
Scintillation light at the end of the tunnel The LHC Long Shutdown 2 (LS2) is approaching in giant steps and with it the date for the installation of the LHCb upgrade detectors. A large SciFi tracker will replace the current downstream trackers SciFi stands for scintillating fibre and means that the fibres will produce tiny
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New LHC results presented at EPS-HEP 2017
New LHC results presented at EPS-HEP 2017 Over 700 physicists coming from 50 countries met in Venice to discuss the newest results in their field at EPS 2017, one of the world’s most important conferences on particle physics. The conference was co-organized by the European Physical Society, the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) and
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LHCb finds new hints of possible deviations from the Standard Model
LHCb finds new hints of possible deviations from the Standard Model Last month, the LHCb collaboration presented results on the measurement of RK*0, which is the ratio of the probabilities that a B0 meson decays to an excited kaon and muons (K*0μ+μ–) or electrons (K*0e+e–). By isolating and counting these decays, the LHCb experiment has
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A Moriond Retrospective: New Results from the LHC Experiments
A Moriond Retrospective: New Results from the LHC Experiments Every March, particle physicists around the world take two weeks to promote results, share opinions and do a bit of skiing in-between. This is the Moriond tradition and the 52nd iteration of the conference took place this year in La Thuile, Italy. Each of the four
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Wealth of new results in Quark Matter 2017
Wealth of new results in Quark Matter 2017 BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/wealth-new-results-quark-matter-2017) Last month, the LHC experiment collaborations presented their latest results at the Quark Matter 2017 conference on how matter behaved in the very early moments of the universe. The programme includes a plethora of presentations on a variety of
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Measurement of matter-antimatter differences in beauty baryon decays.
Measurement of matter-antimatter differences in beauty baryon decays. The LHCb collaboration recently published in Nature Physics the first evidence for the violation of the CP symmetry in baryon decays with statistical significance of 3.3 standard deviations (σ). CP violation has been observed in K and B meson decays, but not yet in any baryon decay.
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LHCb searches for CP violation
LHCb searches for CP violation The phenomenon of violation of invariance under CP, the combined action of charge conjugation C and parity P, which is related to the difference between properties of matter and antimatter, is one of the most fundamental problems in physics. CP violation arises in the Standard Model (SM) from a single
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LHC experiments present latest results in ICHEP16
LHC experiments present latest results in ICHEP16 BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/lhc-experiments-present-latest-results-ichep16) New results from the LHC experiments were presented during the 38th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2016) that took place in Chicago, USA. The collaborations of the LHC experiments can now dive in and explore at the new