Speaker
Dr
Steven Blusk
(Syracuse University)
Description
LHCb is an experiment which has been designed to make precise measurements of CP violating quantities in B-hadron decays. The scope and experimental challenges of this programme are outlined. Our knowledge of the unitarity triangle will be improved significantly with respect to the present status. In particular, the precision on the angle gamma is expected to improve dramatically. Comparison of processes that are sensitive to new physics and those that are dominated by tree-level measurements will provide stringent tests of the Standard Model. Also of the highest interest will be the first precise measurement of the CP violating phase in Bs-Bsbar oscillations. Here LHCb will achieve the sensitivity necessary to resolve the very small value of this parameter predicted in the Standard Model, and will be able to see any enhancements coming from new physics processes with rather little data. Finally, a programme to search for CP violation in D decays will provide a complementary and powerful method of searching for evidence of physics beyond the Standard Model.
Author
Monica Pepe-Altarelli
(CERN)
