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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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

LHCb observes two new baryon particles

The particles, known as the Xi_b'- and Xi_b*-, were predicted to exist by the quark model but had never been seen before

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Experiments
19 November, 2014
Experiments
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19 November, 2014

LHCb result tightens precision on an important angle

LHCb has made a significant new contribution to the measurement of the CKM angle γ

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Experiments
15 September, 2014
Experiments
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15 September, 2014

LHCb presents latest study of beauty oscillations

LHCb has a new result on the probability that beauty mesons oscillate into their antimatter counterparts and vice versa

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Experiments
09 September, 2014
Experiments
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09 September, 2014

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