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El Reg LHCb story

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Re: El Reg LHCb story

Post by March_Hare » Fri Apr 23, 2010 4:05 pm

You beat me to it, was just going to post it here. :occasion-santa:

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Re: El Reg LHCb story

Post by PsaltyDS » Fri Apr 23, 2010 6:54 pm

It's hard to tell from the various articles; is this the first time Beauty+ has been experimentally produced, or just the first for the LHC?

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Re: El Reg LHCb story

Post by pixelmasseuse » Fri Apr 23, 2010 8:01 pm

1993 article on B+ production in LEP:

http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/257181/files/P00019894.pdf

Also, the recent LHCb article refers to "known B+ mass of 5.32 GeV," meaning the observed mass from prior experiments.

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Post by March_Hare » Fri Apr 23, 2010 8:39 pm

Still - good job because this is confirmation that the detectors work as intended.
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Re: El Reg LHCb story

Post by Harbles » Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:28 pm

And they want to measure these known particles in all detectors to ensure that the results all compare closely which shows that with different hardware and software and people on each experiment they agree on the findings which means everything is working as planned.

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Re: El Reg LHCb story

Post by Anitusar » Mon Apr 26, 2010 6:50 am

:text-yeahthat: :clap: :dance:

LHCb is not directly searching for new particles. What it wants to do is to measure rare decays of a b meson. How often these decays occur is predicted by the standard model with rather great precission. If a different decay rate is measured, one can calculate, what new particles changed it.

But in order to measure the rare decays, one has to show that you can measure the known decays. These has been measured with great precission by the b factories, Babar and Belle.

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Re: El Reg LHCb story

Post by OrangeAndBlue » Fri Feb 18, 2011 3:28 pm

pixelmasseuse wrote:1993 article on B+ production in LEP:

http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/257181/payroll/P00019894.pdf

Also, the recent LHCb article refers to "known B+ mass of 5.32 GeV," meaning the observed mass from prior experiments.
That was a good research article on the lifespan of beauty particles. This is the first time I have seen those kind of measurements taken, thank you for sharing this. This forum is so eye opening to a student such as myself... learning so much already :rolleyes:
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Re: El Reg LHCb story

Post by CharmQuark » Fri Feb 18, 2011 6:43 pm

Pleased you are liking the forum OrangeAndBlue :thumbup:

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Re: El Reg LHCb story

Post by Kasuha » Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:11 pm

Have you noticed Orange is a spammer? Check the link he quoted, he added an ad link there. I have noticed similar things in his other posts, too.

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Re: El Reg LHCb story

Post by CharmQuark » Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:49 pm

ok let me sort it :thumbup: hmmm sometimes I can't tell the difference Kasuha :thumbdown:
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