LHCb status and early physics prospects

✍ Scribed by M.P. Altarelli

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 386 KB
• Volume: 58
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-8208
• DOI: 10.1002/prop.201000068

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

LHCb is a dedicated detector for b and c physics at the LHC. I will present a concise review of the detector design and expected performance together with some very early physics results and prospects. An integrated luminosity of ∼ 0.2 fb^‐1^, which should be collected in 2010, will already allow LHCb to perform a number of very significant mesurements with the potential of revealing New Physics effects, such as the search of the decay B^0^~s~ → μ^+^ μ^‐^ beyond the limit set by CDF and D0.