Editing LHCb experiment (section)

{{short description|Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider}}
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The '''LHCb''' ('''Large Hadron Collider beauty''') experiment is a particle physics detector collecting data at the [[Large Hadron Collider]] at [[CERN]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Belyaev|first1=I.|last2=Carboni|first2=G.|last3=Harnew|first3=N.|last4=Teubert|first4=C. Matteuzzi F.|date=2021-01-13|title=The history of LHCB|journal=The European Physical Journal H|volume=46|issue=1|page=3|doi=10.1140/epjh/s13129-021-00002-z|arxiv=2101.05331|bibcode=2021EPJH...46....3B|s2cid=231603240}}</ref> LHCb specializes in the measurements of the parameters of [[CP violation]] in the interactions of b- and c-[[hadron]]s (heavy particles containing a [[bottom quark|bottom]] and [[charm quark|charm]] quarks). Such studies can help to explain the [[baryon asymmetry|matter-antimatter asymmetry]] of the Universe. The detector is also able to perform measurements of production cross sections, [[exotic hadron]] spectroscopy, and [[electroweak interaction|electroweak]] physics in the forward region. The LHCb collaborators, who built, operate and analyse data from the experiment, are composed of approximately 1650 people from 98 scientific institutes, representing 22 countries.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://lhcb.web.cern.ch/lhcb/lhcb_page/collaboration/organization/default.html | title=LHCb Organization}}</ref> Vincenzo Vagnoni<ref>{{Cite web |author=LHCb collaboration |date=2023-07-05 |title=New management for the LHCb collaboration in 2023 |url=https://home.cern/news/news/experiments/new-management-lhcb-collaboration-2023 |access-date=2024-02-05 |publisher=CERN |language=en}}</ref> succeeded on July 1, 2023 as spokesperson for the collaboration from Chris Parkes (spokesperson 2020–2023).<ref>{{Cite web |title=New spokesperson for the LHCb collaboration |url=https://home.cern/news/news/experiments/new-spokesperson-lhcb-collaboration |access-date=2024-02-05 |publisher=LHCb, CERN |language=en}}</ref> The experiment is located at point 8 on the LHC tunnel close to [[Ferney-Voltaire]], [[France]] just over the border from [[Geneva, Switzerland|Geneva]]. The (small) [[MoEDAL experiment]] shares the same cavern.