LHCb
LHCb is one of the four big experiments taking data at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva. The main goal of the experiment is the investigation of unsolved questions of the early Universe as the reason why, a few moments after the Big Bang, there was the same amount of matter and antimatter, while today antimatter is completely absent. With the LHCb experiment the tiny differences between matter and antimatter are studied through the analysis of the decays of particles containing beauty and charm quarks, produced at proton-proton interactions at the very high energies of the LHC.
The scientific program of LHCb is, nevertheless, more extended than this: hadronic spectroscopy, rare decays, charm physics, exotic hadrons with four or five quarks, heavy ion interactions and many other topics.
Differently from the other three big LHC experiments, where the detector completely surround the interaction region, LHCb has the various detectors (Vertex detector, particle identificators, spectrometer, calorimeters, muon detector) placed around the beampipe in order to efficiently measure momenta of the the beauty daughter particles which are emitted predominantly at small angles with respect to the incident protons. To limit the cost only one arm is equipped with detectors.
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For information regarding thesis opportunities, please contact: Roberta Santacesaria.
Local Coordinator
Roberta Santacesaria| Name | Surname | Role | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valerio | Bocci | Dipendente | PrimoTecnologo |
| Giuseppe | Martellotti | Associato | Senior |
| Davide | Pinci | Dipendente | Ricercatore |
| Roberta | Santacesaria | Dipendente | Prima Ricercatrice |
| Alessio | Sarti | Associato | Professore Associato |
| Celeste | Satriano | Associata | Prof.ssa Associata |