This is a
description of the LHCb document collections in the CERN
Document Service (CDS) database. The current snapshot of the
LHCb collections is as follows:
LHCb
LHCb Analysis Notes
LHCb Conference Contributions
LHCb Conference Proceedings
LHCb Internal Notes
LHCb Photos
LHCb Public Notes
LHCb Talks LHCb Theses
| LHCb Analysis Notes | |
| Report name: | LHCb-ANA |
| Description: | Any public result from LHCb, either in the form of a preliminary result or publication, have comprehensive internal documentation in the form of one or more analysis notes. These notes are only accessible to members of the collaboration and form the basis for the approval of results. |
| Authorship: | The proponents of the analysis/measurements. |
| Comments: | Only accessible to members of the LHCb
Collaboration. |
| LHCb Conference Contributions | |
| Report name: | LHCb-CONF |
| Description: | Conference notes is the public written documentation of a preliminary result presented at a conference. They contain a short write-up of the analysis and go through the internal referee process of the collaboration. |
| Authorship: | LHCb Collaboration |
| Comments: | Entered only after substantial internal refereeing. It is expected that each LHCb-CONF will end up being the basis of a publication. However, a publication may take results from more than one LHCb-CONF. |
| LHCb Conference Proceedings | |
| Report name: | LHCb-PROC |
| Description: | These follow the rules described here, linked on the SB web page: https://lhcb.web.cern.ch/lhcb_page/collaboration/organization/editorial_board/conference_proceedings.html |
| Authorship: | No authorlist. |
| Comments: | Authors: No authorlist. EP approval: Not required, no CERN-EP number. |
| LHCb Internal Notes | |
| Report name: | LHCb-INT |
| Description: | Internal notes |
| Authorship: | The individual(s) who wrote the note. |
| Comments: | Only accessible to members of the LHCb Collaboration. |
| LHCb Reviewed Internal Notes | |
| Report name: | LHCb-INT |
| Description: | Reviewed Internal notes. The names of the people who reviewed the notes must be given |
| Authorship: | The individual(s) who wrote the note. |
| Comments: | Only accessible to members of the LHCb Collaboration. |
| LHCb Papers | |
| Report name: | LHCB-PAPER |
| Description: | The final publications of physics results from the collaboration. |
| Authorship: | LHCb Collaboration |
| Comments: |
| Open Data Papers | |
| Report name: | No LHCb note number |
| Description: | Papers which
analyse LHCb open data. The rules are given in the policy
document LHCb-PUB-2013-003. |
| Authorship: | Not
signed by LHCb authors. |
| Comments: | Review: Not reviewed by the collaboration
|
| Theoretical/ Phenomenology Papers or Physics Review Papers |
|
| Report name: | No LHCb note number |
| Description: | These are
physics papers that do not rely on the analysis of LHCb
data or simulation. They typically suggest new theoretical
approaches or analysis techniques relevant to LHCb or
review the state of a research field where LHCb is contributing. |
| Authorship: | Signed
by individual LHCb members, and/or others, independently
of LHCb collaboration. |
| Comments: | Review: Papers that include projections
for LHCb performance or sensitivity, should be sent to the Physics coordinator and Editorial Board chair for comments prior to being posted on the arXiv or submitted to the journal. This rule is reproduced from ‘LHCb Publication Procedure’s available on the EB web site. EP approval: Not required, no CERN-EP number. |
| R&D Papers – no LHCb resources | |
| Report name: | No LHCb note number |
| Description: | These are
papers proposing or testing detector technology or
software algorithms that may have relevance to LHCb and are signed by LHCb members. |
| Authorship: | Signed
by individual LHCb members, and/or others independently of
LHCb collaboration. |
| Comments: | Papers that do not rely on the analysis of
LHCb centrally taken data or simulation, soft- ware, or technical infrastructure are published purely at the discretion of the authors. Papers that make a statement that a technology will be used in LHCb should be sent to the relevant project leader(s), the Technical Coordinator, and the Software and Computing Coordinator for comments prior to being posted on arXiv or submitted to the journal. |
| R&D Papers – LHCb resources |
|
| Report name: | LHCb-RD |
| Description: | These are
papers proposing or testing detector technology or
software algorithms that will, or may, have relevance to LHCb and utilise LHCb centrally taken data or simulation, software or significant amounts of technical infrastructure. |
| Authorship: | To be determined by the project
appropriate to the scope of the paper, taking into account recommendations from the TB and SCB. Non-LHCb members may also be authors. The wider group of people in LHCb working in the area of the paper, or who provided substantive resources (simulation, data-taking, or infrastructure) on which it relies, should be consulted by the project leader when consid- ering the author list. |
| Comments: | If there are non-LHCb members on the
planned author list, the CB has to approve the planned usage of LHCb resources upon its use. This can be made only once in the form of a framework agreement in case of externally funded projects (see LHC-PUB-2013-003). The TB and the SCB assign a review body and sign off the papers once the review is satisfied. The papers are uploaded to CDS before they are sent to arXiv or to a journal. An EP approval is optional, which would result in an additional CERN-EP number for the document. |
| LHCb Detector or Software Performance Papers: | |
| Report name: |
LHCb-DP (DP, detector paper,
but also applicable to software) and is linked on the LHCb
web page. |
| Description: | These are papers describing a sub-detector or software project (or substantial components thereof) or its performance. These may well be intended to be a reference in LHCb publications. |
| Authorship: | Signed
by members of the project(s) with an author list
determined by the project(s) taking into account recommendations of the TB and the SCB. In some cases, the papers are signed by the full collaboration. |
| Comments: | The review and the definition of the
author list follow the rules ‘Rules for the preparation of Detector or Software Performance Papers’ available from the EB web page. There are different proce- dures described depending on whether it is a limited or a full author paper. The Technical Coordinator (TC) and the Software and Computing Coordinator (SCC) should take care of verifying that there is consensus on both the content of the paper and the proposed author list, following recommendations from the Technical Board and the Computing and Software Board. |
| LHCb Physics Related Performance Papers | |
| Report name: | LHCb-DP and is linked on the LHCb web page |
| Description: | These are
papers describing an analysis of LHCb data or simulation
that provides the measurement of quantities of relevance to LHCb physics. |
| Authorship: | For papers that are expected to be cited
by a number of LHCb physics publications, the full collaboration is expected to be authors. For more focused papers of relevance only to a single or small number of physics papers, a limited author list may be appropriate following the recommendations from the TB and the SSB in consultation with the Physics Coordinator (PC) or Operations Coordinator (OC). |
| Comments: | For papers with the full collaboration
author list, the review procedure follows the accord- ing flow chart on the EB page. For a limited author list, the Technical Board and the Software and Computing Board assign a review body in agreement with the PC or OC depending on the topic of the paper. The final approval for submission of the document is given by the TC and SSC together with the PC or OC. EP approval is encouraged which would result in an additional CERN-EP number. |
| LHC Working Group Publications |
|
| Report name: | |
| Description: | These are
joint publications among two or more LHC experiments:
LHC
working groups. The following guidelines have been devised in collaboration with the other LHC experiments. |
| Authorship: | For limited-authorship papers, the
responsibility of defining the authorship of any given
document is with the LHC WG conveners. |
| Comments: | (1) Documents producing new measurements
or data combinations should be signed by the full
collaborations unless the collaboration decides that the
topic is of limited interest and prefers not to submit it to
a journal. Reinterpretations of published data are subject to the publication guidelines in place for the individual members of the LHC Collaborations and are in any case allowed when the collaborations decide not to submit dedicated experimental papers on the topic. (2) Documents reporting studies that are only using simulation without experimental data, and/or with usage of data being limited to comparisons of existing published results with theory predictions (that would not fall under the first case), can be signed by a limited number of authors. The publication committees of the related experiments have to be informed. When experiment internal tools (e.g. MC samples or software) or information are used, the collaboration should first approve the results and release a public note with the relevant plots which can be eventually added, properly referenced, in the limited authorship paper. |
| LHCb Public Notes | |
| Report name: | LHCb-PUB |
| Description: | The final publications of physics results from the collaboration. |
| Authorship: | The individual(s) who wrote the note. |
| Comments: | Publically accessible. Widely used before real data became available. However, public notes are not permitted to use unpublished LHCb data (they mostly describe Monte Carlo studies) so will become less frequent, although they are still allowed for technical notes on the different subsystems. |
| LHCb Talks | |
| Report name: | LHCb-TALK |
| Description: | Presentations (in the form of slides) given at conferences. |
| Authorship: | The individual wrote gave the talk, usually "on behalf of the LHCb Collaboration" (but can also be on behalf of other groups within the collaboration, for technical talks). |
| Comments: |
| LHCb Theses | |
| Report name: | CERN-THESIS |
| Description: | Thesis |
| Authorship: | The individual who wrote the thesis. |
| Comments: | Entered into the LHCb collection because the thesis concerns LHCb. |
| LHCb Figures | |
| Report name: | LHCb-FIGURE |
| Description: |
These documents describe performance figures or publicity
plots to be shown at confer- ences. These figures are only intended to be used for conference talks and in conference proceedings. At the moment a figure is supposed to enter a paper, it has to be approved together with the paper, and the figure document should be retired. |
| Authorship: | LHCb collaboration |
| Comments: |
The
documents are reviewed by the according detector and
software projects, physics anal- ysis or performance working groups. Approval is done case by case by the relevant Project Leader, Operations Coordinator, or Physics Coordinator. These figures are only intended to be used for confer- ence talks and in conference proceedings. The review and approval procedure is detailed at https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/viewauth/LHCbInternal/Operation |
Roger Forty (4 June 2010)
Ulrik
Egede (revised on 28 July 2011 and 6 February 2013)
Patrick Koppenburg (6 May 2019)
Silvia Gambetta, Franz Muheim, Chris Parkes, Matteo Palutan, Niels Tuning (24 February 2022)
Fred Blanc, Ben
Couturier, Stephanie Hansmann-Menzemer, Patrick Robbe, Sascha
Stahl,
Eric Thomas, Ulrich Uwer, Vincenzo Vagnoni, Stefania Vecchi (12
August 2025)