LHCb: A Large Hadron Collider Beauty Experiment for Precision
Measurements of CP-Violation and Rare Decays
The LHCb experiment is the forward arm spectrometer at the LHC.
It is a optimised precision measurements
of CP violation and rare decays in the b quark sector.
Recent experimental results have shown that CP violation
is large in this sector.
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Talks and Notes
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Controlling Penguin contributions
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I collaborate with Kristof de Bruyn and Robert Fleischer on the channel
Bs→J/ψKS which is (weakly) sensitive to γ and is a control
for penguin effects affecting the measurement of β in Bd→J/ψKS.
We recently measured its branching fraction with 0.4 fb-1.
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This triggered a collaboration between experimentalists and theorists:
- A New Window for New Physics in
Bs0 → μ+μ-
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K. De Bruyn, R. Fleischer, R. Knegjens, P. Koppenburg, M. Merk, A. Pellegrino, N. Tuning. 08/04/2012.
arXiv:1204.1737 (hep-ph).
Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett.
- On Branching Ratio Measurements of Bs Decays
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K. De Bruyn, R. Fleischer, R. Knegjens, P. Koppenburg, M. Merk, N. Tuning. 08/04/2012.
arXiv:1204.1735 (hep-ph).
Submitted to Phys. Rev. D.
More on my publications page.
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Penguin Decays
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I am participating in the analysis of rare semileptonic decays,
in particular B → μμK* and B → llK.
I am proud to be able to report the observation of the very rare decay B → μμK at LHCb
with 37 pb-1.
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Operations
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I am the operations coordinator, overseeing all aspects of data collection and processing from trigger to physics processing. I am also the deputy physics coordinator.
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High Level Trigger
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I used to be developing the HLT... but don't have time any more.
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More
Official LHCb page at CERN
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