The LHCb experiment will shed light on why we live in a universe that appears to be composed almost entirely of matter, but not anti matter.
The Large Hadron Beaty ( LHCb ) experiment specializes in investigating the slight differences between matter and antimatter by studying a type of particle called the "beaty quark", or "b quark"
Instead of surrounding the entire collision point with an enclosed detector as do ATLES and CMS, the LHCb experiment uses a series of subdetectors to detect mainly forward particles - those thrown forwards by the collision in one direction. The first subdetector is mounted close to the collision point, with the others following one behind the other over a length of 20 metres.
An abundance of different types of quark are created by the LHC before they decay quickly into other forms. To catch the b quarks, LHCb has developed sophisticated movable tracking detectors close to the path of the beams circling in the LHC.
The 5600-tonne LHCb detector is made up of a forward spectrometer and planar detectors. It is 21 metres long, 10 metres high and 13 metres wide, and sits 100 metres below ground near village of Ferney-Voltaire, France. About 700 scientists from 52 different institutes and universities make the LHCb collaboration.
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