LHCb
LHC Run 3: A Marathon of Progress and Perseverance
Earlier this month, the Large Hadron Collider reached an unprecedented milestone of 100 inverse femtobarns – equivalent to 10 million billion collisions – delivered to the ATLAS and CMS experiments in 2024, with 28 days of proton-proton collisions…
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Navigating Challenges: LHCb's Milestone Achievements and Intensive Data Collection in 2024
Photo of LHCb collaboration members gathered in the control room in April 2024. The LHCb experiment achieved significant milestones by the end of 2023, despite the challenges related to the LHC vacuum incident in the Vertex Locator (VELO) volume and…
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Machine Learning in action: shaping the future of LHCb and fostering cross-experiment collaboration
Common challenges and the democratic nature of ML are building new bridges across experiments. The LHCb experiment is ramping up its R&D efforts in Machine Learning (ML), while also addressing the challenges of deploying ML in production and…
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Unlocking New Possibilities: LHCb's Latest Open Data Releases
The LHCb collaboration at CERN continues to pioneer open science by releasing significant datasets to the public, offering researchers, educators, and enthusiasts around the world unprecedented access to data that fuels new discoveries and deepens…
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Exploration with LHCb: from unseen to rare
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Scientists Observe a New Way for Heavy Mesons to Decay
Researchers working on the LHCb experiment at CERN have achieved a breakthrough in understanding a subatomic particle called the Bc+ meson. They have observed, for the first time, a specific way this meson decays, providing valuable insights into…
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LHCb's new VELO preparing to spring into action
The replacement of the previous VErtex LOcator (VELO) detector with a new high-speed hybrid pixel detector was one of the key milestones for the LHCb collaboration in 2022 (see also previous EP newsletter article). The upgrade was part of an R…
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Upstream Tracker closing completes installation of the LHCb Upgrade detector
The UT sub-detector is located in front of the LHCb dipole magnet. The images included in this news were taken during the UT closing process around the LHC beam pipe. The UT plays an essential role in achieving the desired processing speed in the…
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Ending the 2023 LHC run with heavy-ion collisions
The LHC schedule for 2023 has been revised following the emergence of a leak in mid-July. The decision was to stop the regular proton running this year and focus on the heavy ion physics that was already scheduled for the year-end. This was…
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LHCb physics looks forward to Run 3
The first high energy beams of the LHC on July 5th 2022 marked the start of the third Run of the LHC. While still harvesting and exploring in depth the physics of the first two runs, the LHCb experiment has undergone a major upgrade [1]. Ninety…
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