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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LHC collides ions at new record energy

The accelerator is colliding leads ions at an energy about twice as high as that of any previous collider experiment

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Accelerators
25 November, 2015
Accelerators
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25 November, 2015

New LHCb programme: Of vacuum and gas

In this week's Bulletin find out how a new LHCb programme is delving uncharted waters for the LHC: exploring how protons interact with noble gases

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Accelerators
16 November, 2015
Accelerators
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16 November, 2015

LHCb on the trail of lepton nonuniversality

The LHCb experiment has measured decays of B mesons that have shown deviations from the predictions of the Standard Model

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Experiments
01 September, 2015
Experiments
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01 September, 2015

LHC experiments present latest results in Vienna

The world particle-physics community has convened in Vienna for the 2015 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics

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Experiments
27 July, 2015

Discovery of a new class of particles at the LHC

The LHCb experiment has observed for the first time particles made up of five quarks

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Accelerators
14 July, 2015

First images of collisions at 13 TeV

Last night, for the first time, protons collided in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the record-breaking energy of 13 TeV. See the first images

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Accelerators
21 May, 2015
Accelerators
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21 May, 2015

Protons set to collide at 13 TeV to prepare for physics

These first collisions at 13 TeV in the LHC are to set up systems that protect detectors from stray particles before they are fully switched on

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Accelerators
20 May, 2015

CMS and LHCb experiments reveal new rare particle decay

The CMS and LHCb experiments at the LHC have observed a very rare decay. An important milestone in the search for hints of new physics

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Experiments
12 May, 2015

LHCb's new analysis confirms old puzzle

LHCb physicists today presented their latest analysis of a rare decay, which shows deviations from Standard Model calculations

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Experiments
20 March, 2015
Experiments
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20 March, 2015

LHCb's new analysis confirms old puzzle

LHCb physicists today presented their latest analysis of the rare B → K*μμ decay. The new results show deviations from Standard Model calculations

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Experiments
20 March, 2015
Experiments
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20 March, 2015

Matter-antimatter trigonometry with LHCb

The LHCb has announced a precise measurement of the unitarity triangle angle β

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Experiments
04 March, 2015
Experiments
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04 March, 2015

Beams come knocking on the LHC's door

Weekend tests with beams brought protons just short of the LHC

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Accelerators
24 November, 2014
Accelerators
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24 November, 2014