LHCb

The LHCb experiment is on the LHC ring and specialises in investigating the slight differences between matter and antimatter by studying a type of particle called the “beauty quark” or “b quark”.

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LHCb announces its 2024 collaboration prizes

Congratulations to the 2024 winners of the LHCb Thesis Awards, Early Career Scientist Awards and Technical Awards

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Experiments
12 August, 2024
Experiments
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12 August, 2024

LHCb investigates the rare Σ+→pμ+μ- decay

The rarest hyperon decay ever observed

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Physics
28 June, 2024

Upgrading the LHCb sub-detectors for the HL-LHC

The LHCb experiment is revamping its electromagnetic calorimeter with new high-performance modules and equipping its ring-imaging Cherenkov detectors with very fast electronics

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Experiments
06 June, 2024

Searching for new asymmetry between matter and antimatter

LHCb has conducted a new search for matter–antimatter asymmetry using its full data sets from the first and second runs of the LHC

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Physics
11 April, 2024

LHCb observes a new decay mode of the charmed beauty meson

The result has implications for future searches for rare beauty meson decays and for the interpretation of results from the Fermilab g-2 experiment

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Physics
04 March, 2024

LHCb experiment releases all of its Run 1 proton–proton data

The latest release makes LHCb research data, used by researchers to produce a number of significant results, available to anyone for a wide range of physics studies

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Experiments
11 January, 2024
Experiments
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11 January, 2024

LIVE: from the CERN Control Centre with the four largest LHC experiments

Join scientists from the four largest LHC experiments and other experts, live at the CERN Control Centre on 2 November 2023, 3 p.m. CET, for a recap of the first heavy-ion run of the LHC Run 3

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Experiments
25 October, 2023
Experiments
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25 October, 2023

LHCb sends gift to PANDA

The decommissioned outer tracker of CERN’s LHCb experiment embarked on a one-week journey to the FAIR facility in Darmstadt, Germany, where it will be used by the PANDA experiment to study how subatomic particles build up matter

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Experiments
05 October, 2023
Experiments
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05 October, 2023

LHCb observes hypertriton production in proton-proton collisions at the LHC

With its detection of hypertriton in proton-proton collisions, the LHCb experiment strengthens CERN’s role as one of the few places worldwide to study hypernuclei such as the hypertriton and its antipartner in detail

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Physics
23 August, 2023

Accelerator Report: Leak repaired, cooling in progress

Despite challenging working conditions, the vacuum leak caused by the quench that occurred on 17 July was repaired in less than 10 days

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Accelerators
07 August, 2023
Accelerators
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07 August, 2023

Accelerator Report: A quench of an LHC inner triplet magnet causes a small leak with major consequences

On Monday, 17 July, the LHC beams were dumped after only 9 minutes in collision due to a radiofrequency interlock caused by an electrical perturbation

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Accelerators
19 July, 2023

New management for the LHCb collaboration in 2023

On 1 July 2023, a new spokesperson and two deputies took over at the helm of the LHCb experiment

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Experiments
05 July, 2023