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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First observation of a heavy flavoured spin-3 particle

The LHCb experiment has presented the results of a study of strange beauty meson B0s decay into an anti-charm meson D0, a K- meson and a π+ meson

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Experiments
15 July, 2014

Results from CERN presented at ICHEP in Spain

At ICHEP in Valencia, Spain, all four LHC experiments presented new results from the LHC’s first run. Run 2 physics holds much promise

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Experiments
07 July, 2014

New LHCb management prepares for Run 2 challenges

As of today, LHCb has new management

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Experiments
01 July, 2014

How universal is (lepton) universality?

New results from LHCb suggest that B+mesons decay to muons about 25% less often than they decay to electrons

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Accelerators
03 June, 2014
Accelerators
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03 June, 2014

Z(4430) resonance and other exotic meson results from LHCb

Greig Cowan of the University of Edinburgh (UK) presents the latest on exotic mesons from LHCb. Watch the webcast at 11am CET today

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Experiments
03 June, 2014

LHCb confirms existence of exotic hadrons

The LHCb collaboration today published an unambiguous observation of an exotic particle that cannot be classified within the traditional quark model

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Experiments
09 April, 2014
Experiments
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09 April, 2014

Strangely beautiful dimuons

A key observation at the LHC marks a major milestone in a 30-year-long journey

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Experiments
10 September, 2013
Experiments
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10 September, 2013

Sonata in LHCb: The sound of antimatter

A new video from LHCb lets you hear particles changing from matter to antimatter and back again

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Experiments
26 August, 2013
Experiments
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26 August, 2013

Tracking new physics—horse or zebra?

When you've got a discrepancy in the data, it might be time for theory and experiment to collaborate

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Experiments
09 August, 2013
Experiments
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09 August, 2013

Italian Physical Society honours CERN physicists

The Italian Physical Society awarded five physicists for discoveries at the LHC

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Experiments
26 July, 2013

CMS and LHCb to present rare B-sub-s particle decay

Today in Stockholm, two CERN collaborations will present measurements of one of the rarest measureable processes in physics

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Experiments
19 July, 2013

LHCb first results from proton-lead run

At the "Workshop on proton-nucleus collisions at the LHC" in Trento, Italy, the LHCb collaboration discussed first results from the proton-lead run

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Experiments
10 May, 2013
Experiments
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10 May, 2013