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Vincenzo Vagnoni, Patrick Robbe and Ulrich Uwer – new management for the LHCb...
Vincenzo Vagnoni from the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN, Bologna) begins tomorrow his three-year tenure as LHCb spokesperson. He takes over from Chris Parkes from the University of...
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New observation of hypertriton and antihypertriton production in LHC...
Today, at the European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP), the LHCb Collaboration reported its first observation of hypertritons and antihypertritons using Run 2 data...
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Second life of the LHCb’s Outer Tracker at GSI
The Outer Tracker (OT) is the largest component of tracking system in the original version of the LHCb detector. It was replaced by the Scintillating Fibre (SciFi) sub-detector in the upgraded...
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Heavy Ion collisions ended 2023 data taking period
The 2023 data-taking period ended this morning at 4 am. This year LHCb started taking data on April 14 with proton-proton collisions and ended today with lead-lead heavy ion collisions. This was the...
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LHCb’ s 700th publication reports interesting studies of Quantum Chromodynamics
The LHCb collaboration submitted its 700th publication! The paper reports the integrated and differential cross-section measurements of associated J/ψ and ψ(2S) production in proton-proton collisions...
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LHCb releases the entire Run I dataset
Today the LHCb collaboration complete the release of data collected throughout the Run I of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The sample made available amounts to approximately 800 terabytes (TB) of...
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Observation of the Bc+→J/ψπ+π0 decay
The LHCb collaboration today submitted for publication a paper reporting the first observation of the Bc+→J/ψπ+π0 decay with overwhelming significance. The π+π0 mass spectrum is consistent with the...
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Ruhr-Universität Bochum became LHCb’s 100th collaborating Institute
In February 2024, the Ruhr-Universität Bochum became 100th institute to join the LHCb collaboration. We have come a long way since August 1995, when a Letter of Intent was submitted for LHCb, the...
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Measurement of D0 − antiD0 mixing and CP violation in D0→K+π – decays
Today, at a CERN seminar, the LHCb collaboration reported results of the measurement of D0 − D0 mixing and CP violation in D0→K+π– decays with the full Run 2 data sample. When combined with the...
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LHCb observes the rare decay J/ψ→μ+μ–μ+μ–
Today, at the Rencontres de Moriond QCD and High Energy Interactions, the LHCb collaboration reported the observation of the rare elecromagnetic decay J/ψ→μ+μ–μ+μ–. The simultaneous discovery of the...
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ECAL and RICH sub-detector enhancements approved for construction
The LHCb experiment will upgrade the inner part of the Electromagnetic Calorimeter and the electronics of the Ring Imaging Cherenkov detectors in the next LHC Long Shutdown (LS3). On July 5, 2022,...
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Observation of the rare Σ+→pμ+μ– decay
The LHCb collaboration reported the observation of the Σ+→pμ+μ– rare decay at the XV International Conference on Beauty, Charm, Hyperons in Hadronic Interactions (BEACH 2024) in Charleston, South...
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Probing the nature of the mysterious particle χc1(3872)
Today, at a CERN seminar, the LHCb collaboration reported precise measurements of the properties of the mysterious particle χc1(3872), also known as the X(3872), using radiative decays...
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Improved determination of the CKM angle γ
Today, at the 42nd International Conference on High Energy Physics, ICHEP, Prague, Czech Republic, the LHCb collaboration reported an improved determination of the CKM angle γ with a precision better...
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Measurement of the effective leptonic weak mixing angle
Today, at the 42nd International Conference on High Energy Physics, ICHEP, Prague, Czech Republic, the LHCb collaboration reported a measurement of the effective leptonic weak mixing angle, sin2θleff,...
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First observation of muonic Dalitz decays of χb mesons
The LHCb collaboration submitted today a paper reporting precise measurements of the mass values and splittings of the hidden-beauty particles that exist within the bb quark bound system called...
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Test of lepton flavour universality with Bs0 → ϕℓ+ℓ− decays
The LHCb collaboration submitted today a paper reporting new tests of lepton flavour universality, one of the cornerstone of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics. It implies that the SM treats...
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End of successful proton-proton collision data taking period
The 2024 proton-proton collision period at the LHC ended this week. This period was particularly successful for LHCb, also owing to the excellent performance of the LHC. The rate at which the...
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Evidence for CP violation in Λb0→ΛK+K– decays
This week, at a CERN seminar, the LHCb collaboration presented new results that provide evidence for CP violation in Λb0→ΛK+K– decays. LHCb is an experiment designed to study physics phenomena...
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