Research report 2010 - Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
The LHCb experiment – matter, antimatter, dark matter and B-physics
Authors
Schmelling, Michael
Departments
Teilchen- und Astroteilchenphysik (Prof. Dr. Werner Hofmann)
Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg
Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg
Summary
At the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) the LHCb experiment is studying rare decays of B-mesons, i.e., a special kind of heavy elementary particles. It will perform precision measurements in order to find deviations from the Standard Model of particle physics with the goal to understand why there is no antimatter left over from the big bang and what is the nature of dark matter.