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December 2011-March 2012 : Start of the long technical stop 2011/2012 in the LHCb Cavern...(diashow by Rolf Lindner)

March 30, 2010: First Collisions at 3.5 Tev (photos Nathalie Grub, Rolf Lindner)

November 20, 20:38 beam 1 has completed 2 turns

Nov
ember 20, 23:53 beam 2 completed few turns (photos Nathalie Grub, Rolf Lindner)

Nov
ember 21, 21:00 first proton beam gas interactions

Nov
ember 23, 18:00 first proton-proton collisions (photos Kazu Akiba, Rolf Lindner)

Dec
ember 6, 7:19 protons are colliding again at LHCb

Dec
ember 14, 4:00 1.2 TeV proton beams are colliding at LHCb

Dec
ember 16, 18:00 end of 2009 LHC operation; restart: February 14th

Enjoy LHC news video

Andrei Golutvin et al., December 18 presentations

Olivier Callot et al., November 26 presentations

LHCb November 23 pp collision video youTube, CDS

First (two) rings produced by Cherenkov light emitted by cosmic particles in the two radiators of RICH1 have been observed (04.09.2009)

37 teachers from all over the world are visiting LHCb (30.06.2009): pictured in front of DELPHI. Over the next few weeks they will help us work on outreach material

Very successful TED run on June 6-7, 2009: see video on YouTube or CERN CDS
Saturday 3, 5, Sunday 8, 16 Vertex Locator VELO tracks, see event movie, and Silicon Tracker IT tracks 1 1f triggered by calorimeters pdf ppt, see CERN Bulletin

LHCb History
 (as presented at the 2008 Xmas Drink)

Uncommon workers in LHCb on 21.10.2008

LHCb Industry Awards on 21.10.2008

LHC Inauguration on 21.10.2008

LHCb Virtual Tour  (QuickTime needed) (12.09.2008)

September 10th - First beam day

Events seen in LHCb : TED Dump RICH Muons;  Beam1: RICH2 , beam gas int.,
splash of particles, OT tracks originating close to beam pipe, beam lost?

Special Issue of the Bulletin - Press Release - Pictures (credits Rolf , Nath, Mathias, Paul and Philip)
(12.09.2008)

First tracks produced by the LHC beam during synchronization test, a success (August 2008)

First tracks produced by the LHC beam during synchronization test have been seen in the VELO detector on August 22nd (Friday late afternoon) triggered by the Calorimeter detector SPD saturated by tracks. This was made possible by the perfect monitoring of the LHC beam and very effective communication with the machine. This is a great success for the whole LHCb Collaboration. Congratulations! (25.08.2008)

"Vertical cosmics" with the SPD, comments, July 28, 2008

The LHCb Virtual World, April 2008

LHCb layout (outreach for general public), 01.02.2008

Video films on Matter-Antimatter and B physics (general public), 21.01.2008

VELO-Successful installation, this week (week 44)

VIP at LHCb (10.08.2007, by CERN photographers)

Pictures of the LHCb shielding wall under construction (August 2007)

More recent pictures (29.08.2007)

Pictures of the LHCb shielding wall under construction (June 2007)

LHCb Beam Pipe Commissioned (June 2007)

The whole LHCb vacuum chamber is installed and is leak tight  (31.03.2007)

9 February 2007: The biggest Beryllium cone of the beam pipe has been installed

Beam pipe inserted on February 2007

Andre Lagarrigue Prize for Jacques Lefrancois

View of the Cavern (December 2006)

Another important milestone has been achieved on 24th August (VELO, August 06)

The Velo vaccum tank was put on its final position on May 19, 2006

The Outer Tracker bridge installation has been completed beginning of June 2006

Pictures of the Cavern

RICH transport story