LHCb
LHCb is a particle physics experiment which will study the subtle differences between matter and antimatter. The design and construction of the experiment is being undertaken by 500 scientists from 48 institutes in 14 countries around the world. The experiment will be located 100m underground at the 27km-circumference Large Hadron Collider (LHC) which is being built at CERN in Geneva.

The LHC will collide protons at a centre-of-mass energy of 14TeV, which will produce 10¹² bb pairs each year at the interaction point of the experiment. LHCb will exploit this enormous production rate to study CP violating effects and other phenomena in the decays of B mesons. The measurements will be sensitive to new physics contributions beyond the Standard Model.

The RAL PPD Group has responsibilities in the construction and operation of the RICH detectors, the building of the worldwide Computing Grid to process data and in the physics exploitation of the experiment.