학술논문

Implications of LHCb measurements and future prospects
Document Type
article
Source
European Physical Journal C. 73(4)
Subject
hep-ex
hep-ph
Nuclear & Particles Physics
Quantum Physics
Atomic
Molecular
Nuclear
Particle and Plasma Physics
Atomic
Molecular
Nuclear
Particle and Plasma Physics
Language
Abstract
During 2011 the LHCb experiment at CERN collected 1.0 fb−1 of √s = 7 TeV pp collisions. Due to the large heavy quark production cross-sections, these data provide unprecedented samples of heavy flavoured hadrons. The first results from LHCb have made a significant impact on the flavour physics landscape and have definitively proved the concept of a dedicated experiment in the forwardregion at a hadron collider. This document discusses the implications of these first measurements on classes of extensions to the Standard Model, bearing in mind the interplay with the results of searches for on-shell production of new particles at ATLAS and CMS. The physics potential of an upgrade to the LHCb detector, which would allow an order of magnitude more data to be collected, is emphasised.