Abstract
LHCb is a dedicated experiment to study CP violation and other rare processes in the B meson system at LHC. It is designed to exploit the large sample of Bd and Bs mesons available at LHC by having a trigger system efficient for both leptonic and hadronic final states, particle identification capability over large momentum range and excellent decay time resolution. After the approval of Technical Design Reports of various sub-detector systems, construction of detector components has started. The experiment is planned to be ready for data taking from the beginning of the LHC operation.
Highlights
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) [1] at CERN was designed to collide protons at a center of mass energy of 14 TeV using the existing LEP tunnel
It is designed to exploit the large sample of Bd and Bs mesons available at LHC by having a trigger system efficient for both leptonic and hadronic final states, particle identification capability over large momentum range and excellent decay time resolution
The goal of B physics in the LHC era [4, 5] is to determine the CKM parameters in a model-independent way and to isolate the effect of New Physics so that its characteristics could be identified. This calls for a high statistics experiment capable of studying CP violation with both B0 and B0s systems decaying into various final states, including those with only hadrons
Summary
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) [1] at CERN was designed to collide protons at a center of mass energy of 14 TeV using the existing LEP tunnel. The goal of B physics in the LHC era [4, 5] is to determine the CKM parameters in a model-independent way and to isolate the effect of New Physics so that its characteristics could be identified. This calls for a high statistics experiment capable of studying CP violation with both B0 and B0s systems decaying into various final states, including those with only hadrons. A capability of reconstructing π0 would enhance the potential of the experiment further. Some of the detector components and trigger are described in detail in these proceedings [6, 7, 8, 9, 10] together with the expected physics performance of the experiment [11]
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