The
LHCb
is an experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
at CERN used the study Standard Model violations,
such as the asymmetry in matter and anti-matter, and
to search for new physics that extend beyond the
Standard Model.
The
LHCb
itself is made a few primary components:
A
vertex locator that measures where the
proton-proton collisions occur and the point where
short-lived particles decay.
A
spectrometer containing a dipole magnet used to
bend particles in the horizontal plane, and a
tracking device used to measure the trajectory of
charged particles.
A
calorimeter system used to absorb and identify
photons, hadrons, and electrons.
A
system used to identify charged particles like
pions, kaons, and muons.
A
system used for real-time filtering to sift out
interesting events and send to an offline
computing grid for further investigation.
The
other
experiments at CERN, the ATLAS and CMS experiments,
are multipurpose. The LHCb, however, was
specifically designed with these features to study
standard model particles.
