Speaker
Greig Cowan
(University of Edinburgh (GB))
Summary
The LHCb experiment is designed to study the decays and properties of heavy flavoured hadrons
produced in the forward region from pp collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. During
Run1, it has recorded the world?s largest data sample of beauty and charm hadrons, enabling
precise studies into the spectroscopy of such particles, including discoveries of new states and
measurements of their properties such as masses, width and quantum numbers. In particular the
discovery of the first pentaquark states and the first determination of the Zc(4430) as a tetra
quark state have increased the interest for exotic spectroscopy. An overview of the recent LHCb
results in this area is presented.
