LHCb prospects in flavour physics and CP violation

• Published in: Journal of physics. Conference series Vol. 110; no. 5; p. 052014
• Main Author: Eisenhardt, S
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.05.2008
• Subjects: CP violation; Decay; Experiments; Flavor (particle physics); Large Hadron Collider; Physics; Standard model (particle physics)
• ISSN: 1742-6596; 1742-6588; 1742-6596
• DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/110/5/052014

A selection of key measurements of the LHCb physics programme is reviewed where competitive results can be expected from the first year of data taking. The LHCb experiment will search for New Physics in Bs mixing, notably through the measurement of the Bs mixing phase s from the time-dependent CP asymmetry in exclusive Bs decays governed by the b → c s quark-level transition. The LHCb experiment will exploit a number of methods to measure the CKM angle γ from B → DK tree decays, with the goal of reaching a precision comparable to the indirect determinations of γ within the CKM model. The LHCb experiment will search for New Physics in Bs0 → μ+ μ− and B0 → K* μ+μ− decays, for the former decay with a 90% CL exclusion sensitivity down to the Standard Model prediction.