Oxford LHCb and CLEO-c

What is LHCb?

LHCb is an experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHC collides protons at a centre of mass energy of 7 TeV, which at design luminosity will give rise to the production of 10¹² bbbar pairs per year in the LHCb interaction region, and an order of magnitude more ccbar pairs. LHCb is exploiting this enormous event rate to study CP violating effects, and other phenomena in the decays of B and D mesons. These measurements are highly sensitive to new physics contributions beyond the Standard Model.

Oxford's Role

The Oxford LHCb group has important responsibilities in the RICH system and physics exploitation of LHCb. A brief description of the full LHCb detector and links to more detailed information can be found here.

Oxford physicists are also members of the CLEO-c experiment at Cornell University, NY, USA. This experiment studies the properties of D mesons in e⁺e^- collisions. Oxford's participation in CLEO-c is motivated by the need to measure D decay characteristics needed in LHCb B physics analyses.

Information about graduate studentships in the Oxford LHCb group.

A collection of useful links to related sites .