Search for New Physics signals with the LHCb detector at the LHC

par Gaia Lanfranchi (LNF-INFN)

lundi 21 mars 2011, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Paris

Amphithéâtre (CPPM)

The LHCb experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider is looking for signatures of New Physics through precision measurements of processes involving B and D mesons. In particular, rare processes that are suppressedin the Standard Model may have a high sensitivity to possible contributions from New Physics. The first LHC physics run started on March 30th, 2010 at a center-of-mass energy of sqrt{s} = 7 TeV and LHCb collected ~40 pb^{-1} of data between April and November 2010. More than 1 fb^{-1} of integrated luminosity is expectedto be collected by the end of 2011. In my talk, I will present selected topics on heavy flavour physics, with special attention to the first LHCb result on the search of the very rare decays B(s,d)->mumu. Prospects for measurements that can be competitive with the data collected in the 2011 run will be also given.

Slides lanfranchi_21march2011.pdf