Implications of LHCb measurements and future prospects

Collaboration, The LHCb; Bharucha, A.; Bigi, I.I.; Bobeth, C.; Bobrowski, M.; Brod, J.; Buras, A.J.; Davies, C.T.H.; Datta, A.; Delaunay, C.; Descotes-Genon, S.; Ellis, J.; Feldmann, T.; Fleischer, R.; Gedalia, O.; Girrbach, J.; Guadagnoli, D.; Hiller, G.; Hochberg, Y.; Hurth, T.; Isidori, G.; Jäger, S.; Jung, M.; Kagan, A.; Kamenik, J.F.; Lenz, A.; Ligeti, Z.; London, D.; Mahmoudi, F.; Matias, J.; Nandi, S.; Nir, Y.; Paradisi, P.; Perez, G.; Petrov, A.A.; Rattazzi, R.; Sharpe, S.R.; Silvestrini, L.; Soni, A.; Straub, D.M.; van Dyk, D.; Virto, J.; Wang, Y.-M.; Weiler, A.; Zupan, J.

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 forward region 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.

Citation

Collaboration, T. L., Bharucha, A., Bigi, I., Bobeth, C., Bobrowski, M., Brod, J., …Zupan, J. (2013). Implications of LHCb measurements and future prospects. The European Physical Journal C, 73, Article 2373. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2373-2

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Apr 26, 2013
• Deposit Date: Mar 15, 2013
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 29, 2014
• Journal: European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
• Print ISSN: 1434-6044
• Electronic ISSN: 1434-6052
• Publisher: SpringerOpen
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 73
• Article Number: 2373
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2373-2
• Related Public URLs: http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1208.3355