The LHCb experiment, operating at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, is designed to perform precision measurements of CP violation as well as rare decays of beauty and charm hadrons, hunting for hints of Physics beyond the Standard Model.
The detector is a single-arm spectrometer covering a pseudo-rapidity range of 2 < η < 5. In runs 1 and 2, a total luminosity of about 9 fb-1 was...
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN replaced the innermost station of the forward muon system with the New Small Wheels (NSWs). The goals of this upgrade are reduction of fake muon triggers and better handling of the increased hit rates of the future high-luminosity LHC. The NSW consists of eight
layers of micromegas (MM) chambers and eight layers of small-strip thin gap chambers (sTGC). Both...
