The LHCb Experiment: detector, upgrades and recent results

by Lars Eklund (Uppsala)

Tuesday 27 Apr 2021, 13:15 → 14:15 Europe/Stockholm

Zoom: https://stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/j/62320153507

The LHCb experiment is one of the four large experiments at the LHC, originally designed with a focus on heavy flavour physics, but its physics programme has grown beyond its original scope. I’ll start by describing the physics programme in general and the experimental environment it operates it, high-luminosity pp collisions at 13 TeV CoM energy. This both enables LHCb's very successful physics programme but also presents interesting challenges for the detector, trigger and readout system. I will give a brief overview of the LHCb detector with particular focus on the vertex detector and the trigger system to show the crucial role they have in the experiment. I will describe the ongoing detector upgrade, starting with physics motivation, agains giving details on the vertex detector and the trigger. I will show highlights from a few recent results and finally describe the plans for future upgrades which will ensure that LHCb will remain the world-leading flavour physics experiment until the end of the next decade.