LHCb there and back again: my three years as an LHC ring bearer

by Chris Parkes (University of Manchester)

Wednesday 22 Nov 2023, 15:30 → 17:00 Europe/London

OLL/3-337 (Liverpool Physics)

I’ll discuss an eventful three years at the helm of LHCb: pandemic; war; attempt to implode our vertex detector; non-discovery of a "fifth-force"….no orcs (yet).  But also: a new Upgrade I detector constructed and installed; first stage approval for Upgrade II; world best precision on all key CP Violation observables; tetraquarks and pentaquarks galore.

The Large Hadron Collider-beauty (LHCb) experiment completed its initial operating period (2010-2018), produced many of its legacy results and published over 650 scientific papers. Recent highlights of the physics output will be reviewed both from the core flavour physics and the wide programme beyond this. The next era has now started for LHCb, with the Upgrade I experiment installed and taking data in LHC Run 3. This major upgrade allows a significant increase of instantaneous luminosity and improves efficiencies and flexibility through the introduction of a fully software based trigger at 40MHz. Beyond this the collaboration is planning the Upgrade II for the 2030s, an ambitious flavour physics experiment at the HL- LHC, and a larger scale project than previously undertaken by LHCb.


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