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Heavy Flavour Results and Prospects at LHCb
Gaia Lanfranchi (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati)
Seminar Room 3, 15:00h
The LHCb experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider is looking for
signatures of New Physics through precision measurements of processes
involving B mesons and other hadrons containing b or c quarks. In
particular, rare processes that are suppressed in the Standard Model
may have a high sensitivity to possible contributions from New Physics.
By studying the effect of virtual particles in internal loops, LHCb
extends the discovery potential for new heavy particles at the LHC
to masses far beyond those accessible in direct searches.
The first LHC physics run started on March 30th, 2010 at a reduced
center-of-mass energy of √s = 7 TeV with respect to the nominal
one (√s = 14 TeV). Approximately 40 pb–1 of data have
been collected between April and November 2010 by LHCb with a peak
luminosity exceeding 2 x 1032 cm–2 s–1. More than 1 fb–1 of integrated
luminosity is expected by the end of 2011. The data collected in the
forthcoming 2011–2012 years will allow LHCb to become one of the
most important actors in the flavour physics sector.
In my talk, I will present selected early physics results, and describe
the short-term and long-term physics program.
