LHCb targets new source of CP violation
The LHCb collaboration presented new results at the 8th International Workshop on Charm Physics (Charm 2016), which took place in Bologna on 5 to 9 September. Among various novelties, the collaboratio...
LHCb finds early surprises at Run 2
The bumper data harvest at LHC Run 2 continues for the LHCb experiment. In mid-August, the collaboration celebrated the milestone of 1 fb–1 integrated luminosity collected so far during 2016, wit...
LHCb finds tetraquark candidates
The LHCb collaboration has reported the observation of three new exotic hadrons and confirmed the existence of a fourth by analysing the full data sample from LHC Run 1. Although the theoretical ...
Belle II super-B factory experiment takes shape at KEK
Since CERN’s LHC switched on in the autumn of 2008, no new particle colliders have been built. SuperKEKB, under construction at the KEK laboratory in Tsukuba, Japan, is soon to change that. In contr...
ATLAS clocks rare decay of B mesons into muon pairs
The decays of the B0s and B0 into muon pairs represent an important test of the Standard Model. Such decays take place through a flavour-changing neutral current process, which occurs only through loo...
LHCb updates Bs oscillation measurement
The LHCb experiment has recently made the most precise measurement yet of the asymmetry in oscillations between the matter and antimatter versions of Bs mesons. The measurement exploits the full LHCb ...
Theatre of Dreams: LHCb looks to the future
Eighty physicists gathered in Manchester on 6 and 7 April to discuss the future of the LHCb experiment. The LHCb collaboration is currently constructing a significant upgrade to its detector, which w...
NA62: CERN’s kaon factory
Résumé NA62 : l’usine à kaons du CERN Le CERN est fort d’une longue tradition en physique des kaons, tradition perpétuée aujourd’hui par l’expérie...
World’s most precise measurements and search for the X(5568) tetraquark candidate
At the Rencontres de Moriond EW conference held at La Thuile (Italy) from 12 to 19 March, the LHCb collaboration presented new important results. CKM γ-angle measurements. The parameters that descri...
LHCb awards physics prizes for its Kaggle competition
Machine learning, also known in physics circles as multivariate analysis, is used more and more in high-energy physics, most visibly in data analysis but also in other applications such as trigger and...
