LHCb experiment is one of eight particle physics detector experiments collecting data at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
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LHCb experiment is one of eight particle physics detector experiments collecting data at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
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LHCb is a specialized b-physics experiment, designed primarily to measure the parameters of CP violation in the interactions of b-hadrons .
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The LHCb detector is a single arm forward spectrometer with a polar angular coverage from 10 to 300 milliradians in the horizontal and 250 mrad in the vertical plane.
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The LHCb design allowed the study of collisions of particle beams with a gas injected inside the VELO volume, making it similar to a fixed-target experiment; this setup is usually referred to as "SMOG".
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In 2015, analysis of the decay of bottom lambda baryons in the LHCb experiment revealed the apparent existence of pentaquarks, in what was described as an "accidental" discovery.
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In 2019, LHCb announced discovery of CP violation in decays of charm mesons.
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In 2020, LHCb announced discovery of time-dependent CP violation in decays of Bs mesons.
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Since then, LHCb has published several papers with more precise measurements in this decay mode.
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LHCb has found deviations from this predictions by comparing the rate of the decay to that of, and in similar processes.
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In March 2021, LHCb announced that the anomaly in lepton universality crossed the "3 sigma" statistical significance threshold, which translates to a p-value of 0.
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LHCb has contributed to studies of quantum chromodynamics, electroweak physics, and provided cross-section measurements for astroparticle physics.
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