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Organisation

We joined the LHCb experiment early in 2011. New? Click here for information to get yourself started. Famous alumni? .

Current activities

Collection of past activities?

Rare b-hadron decays

• Λ_b → pK μ⁺ μ^-? (Niladri + Paul)
• Λ_b → $Lambda;(1520) μ⁺ μ^-]] (Niladri + Dan T)
• B → &pi e μ (Niladri + Marcus)

Dark sector searches

• Search for π⁰ $rarr; A' ($rarr; e⁺ e^-) $gamma; (Dan J)
• Mapping the material in the LHCb VELO (Dan J + Marcus)

Silicon tracking detectors

• LGAD characterisation: GoogleDrive and Indico (Niladri + Paul + Dan T + Marcus)
• 4D tracking with TimePix4? (Dan J + Marcus)

Fast readout

Software repositories

• GIT

Ongoing and Past Analyses

Paper Reviews

• Institutional comments?

Simulations

Birmingham is responsible for the development and maintenance of software tests used to monitor the progress and regression of LHCb simulation software. These tests are written to run in either standalone Geant4 or Gauss, the main LHCb simulation project which combines particle generation using frameworks such as Pythia, with detector response as modelled by Geant4. The pages below outline information regarding the tests under our responsibility as well as give an overview of how to execute them. The software testing and comparison itself is hosted on LHCbPR2? , which displays the information relating to the running of each test on different nightly slots containing various builds of Gauss/LHCb-Geant4 in development. If your test is not displayed for a date where it is expected to have run, this could be due to a failed build of the main software, as such it is recommended you keep an eye on the nightly build results.

LHCb Nightlies Website

LHCbPR and Test Development

Summary of Tests & Allocations

Validation Studies

Creating a New DecFile

Useful Links

• Just a Taste - Lectures on Flavor Physics, Yuval Grossman (latex notes by Flip Tanedo), Cornell.
  • related notes from 2009 summer schools
• Course on Physics at the LHC, LIP Portugal, 2013 (emphasis on GPDs rather than CMS, but useful nontheless)