Tag: LHCb
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LHC Restart 2016
LHC Restart 2016 The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its experiments are back in action, now taking physics data at 13TeV. The goal is to improve our understanding of fundamental physics which ulitmately in decades to come can drive innovation and inventions by researchers in other fields. The Higgs was the last piece of the
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A successful year for the LHCb collaboration
A successful year for the LHCb collaboration After the Long Shutdown of 2013 and 2014, LHCb started to take data this year and collected during this year 320 pb-1 of proton-proton collisions at the center of mass energy of 13 TeV. The detector was almost identical to the one used during Run 1, apart from
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LHC experiments upgraded trigger plans
LHC experiments upgraded trigger plans As the LHC prepares for higher energies and luminosities all four experiments have upgraded their triggering to record data more efficiently and make sure that their detectors are ready to find evidence for new physics. The trigger teams from the experiments describe the changes made between Run1 and Run 2
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LHCb results from proton-lead collisions and prospects for heavy ion interactions
LHCb results from proton-lead collisions and prospects for heavy ion interactions At the 7th edition of the Hard-Probes conference, taking place at McGill University, Montreal, from June 29 – July 3, the LHCb collaboration presented for the first time its plan and potential in heavy ion physics. Beyond the rich programme in flavour physics based
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LHC experiments present latests results from heavy-ion runs (old)
LHC experiments present latests results from heavy-ion runs (old) The 7th edition of the Hard Probes International Conference series was hosted by McGill University in Montréal, Québec, Canada, from 29 June to 3 July. During the last two decades, high-energy nuclear physics has seen a tremendous progress; thanks to the combined efforts of CERN SPS,
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Measurement of J/ψ production cross-sections in pp collisions at 13 TeV
Measurement of J/ψ production cross-sections in pp collisions at 13 TeV At the EPS-HEP 2015 conference in Vienna the LHCb collaboration has presented today the first measurement of the probability to produce a J/ψ meson in proton-proton collisions at 13TeV. Using this measurement they also determined the rate at which beauty quarks are produced at
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Data Quality Monitoring: An important step towards new physics
Data Quality Monitoring: An important step towards new physics Data Quality Monitoring (DQM) is an important aspect of every high-energy physics experiment. In the era of LHC, when the detectors are extremely sophisticated devices, an online feedback on the quality of the data recorded is needed to avoid taking low quality data and to guarantee
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LHC experiment release data in CERN’s Open Data Portal
LHC experiment release data in CERN's Open Data Portal On 20 November 2014, CERN launched the Open Data Portal, making data from real collision events at the LHC experiments available for the first time to the general public. This project is part of the Organisation's policy of openness, which is enshrined in its founding convention
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LHC experiments back in business at record energy
LHC experiments back in business at record energy BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/lhc-experiments-back-business-record-energy) The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) started delivering physics data on 3rd of June for the first time in 27 months. After an almost two year shutdown and several months re-commissioning, the LHC is now providing collisions to all of
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Focus on the Run Coordinators of the LHC Experiments (Part 2)
Focus on the Run Coordinators of the LHC Experiments (Part 2) Following two years of maintenance and consolidation work, the Long Shutdown 1 officially ended on 5 April 2015, when the first proton beams circulated the LHC. Now the LHC experiments are getting ready to operate once more and record the first collision data. In