Thursday, January 4, 2007, 16:00
WHGA Auditorium
U. Straumann, Zürich University
Abstract:
The LHCb experiment is designed to exploit the large b quark production
cross section in pp collisions at the future LHC at CERN in order to
perform a wide range of precision studies of CP violating phenomena and
rare decays in the B meson systems, including CP asymmetry measurements
in the B_s system. The experiment will operate at a moderate luminosity
of 2 * 10^32 cm^-2s^-1. An overview of the design and present
installation status of the experiment will be given, with some emphasis
on the development of the silicon tracking system, provided by the Swiss
groups. - A new method of determining the expected thermal noise of a
small and fast signal system in practical live will be explained.