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“Grand Unification” of data taking for the LHCb experiment

The 2017 data taking period for LHCb ended at the end of November. Towards the end of the 2017 run at the centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, the LHC provided collisions at a reduced energy of 5 TeV to produce reference data for proton-lead and lead-…

LHCb prepares for the major upgrade in LS2

Following the excellent performance of the LHC machine and after a very successful year for LHCb with a recorded luminosity of 1.7 fb-1 over the year 2017 LHCb goes now into the Years-End-Technical-Stop YETS. The experiment has taken data very…

LHCb collaboration meets to discuss recent results and future prospects

A record number of over three hundred physicists from the LHCb collaboration and the theory community got together on 8-10 November at CERN for the seventh edition of the workshop on the “Implications of LHCb measurements and future prospects”. The…

Scintillation light at the end of the tunnel

The LHC Long Shutdown 2 (LS2) is approaching in giant steps and with it the date for the installation of the LHCb upgrade detectors. A large SciFi tracker will replace the current downstream trackers SciFi stands for scintillating fibre and means…

New LHC results presented at EPS-HEP 2017

Over 700 physicists coming from 50 countries met in Venice to discuss the newest results in their field at EPS 2017, one of the world’s most important conferences on particle physics. The conference was co-organized by the European Physical Society…

LHCb finds new hints of possible deviations from the Standard Model

Last month, the LHCb collaboration presented results on the measurement of RK*0, which is the ratio of the probabilities that a B0 meson decays to an excited kaon and muons (K*0μ+μ-) or electrons (K*0e+e-). By isolating and counting these decays,…

A Moriond Retrospective: New Results from the LHC Experiments

Every March, particle physicists around the world take two weeks to promote results, share opinions and do a bit of skiing in-between. This is the Moriond tradition and the 52nd iteration of the conference took place this year in La Thuile, Italy.…

Wealth of new results in Quark Matter 2017

Last month, the LHC experiment collaborations presented their latest results at the Quark Matter 2017 conference on how matter behaved in the very early moments of the universe. The programme includes a plethora of presentations on a variety of…

Measurement of matter-antimatter differences in beauty baryon decays.

The LHCb collaboration recently published in Nature Physics the first evidence for the violation of the CP symmetry in baryon decays with statistical significance of 3.3 standard deviations (σ). CP violation has been observed in K and B meson decays…

LHCb searches for CP violation

The phenomenon of violation of invariance under CP, the combined action of charge conjugation C and parity P, which is related to the difference between properties of matter and antimatter, is one of the most fundamental problems in physics. CP…

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