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Description of LHCb document collections

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)