Thursday, March 31, 2022, 16:00
online only
(for the zoom link contact michael.spira@psi.ch, johannes.schlenk@psi.ch or
antonio.coutinho@psi.ch)
Franz Muheim, University of Edinburgh
Abstract:
The Large Hadron Collider-beauty (LHCb) experiment was built to study
heavy flavour beauty hadrons to explore the matter-antimatter asymmetry
of the Universe and to search for new physics beyond the Standard Model
in rare decays. LHCb completed collecting data at the LHC (2010-2018)
and has published over 600 papers. Recent highlights of the physics
output will be reviewed, including intriguing results on charged lepton
flavour universality, on CP violation and exotic spectroscopy. In
addition, the LHCb physics programme has expanded into QCD, electroweak
physics, searches for long-lived particles and added a heavy
ion-programme. A new era is now starting with the LHCb Upgrade I
detector installed, which will operate from 2022 during LHC run 3 and
run 4. This new detector will allow a significant increase of
instantaneous luminosity and improve efficiencies and flexibility
through the introduction of a fully software based trigger at 40MHz.
Beyond this the LHCb collaboration is planning an Upgrade II for the
2030s, an ambitious general purpose experiment at the HL-LHC. This is a
larger scale project, and will use a range of novel technological
developments including Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) with
precision timing for tracking systems, with many opportunities for the
involvement of new collaborators in the research, design and
construction activities.