About LHCb

The Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment is one of the four big experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In contrast to its siblings, LHCb is an asymmetric detector that covers events at forward rapidities ($2<\eta<5$). The spirit behind this particular design is to exploit the large production of heavy-flavour quarks in the forward rapidity region.

The main goal of LHCb is to study sources of CP violation, via rare decays of beauty and charmed hadrons, in order to explain the current asymmetry of matter-antimatter in the universe. However, LHCb is a versatile detector enabling the study of a broad range of physical phenomena - including spectroscopy studies of conventional and exotic hadrons, and searches for extremely rare processes.

The Getting Started with LHCb Open Data page contains information on the available open data from the LHCb experiment to explore!

The LHCb Open Data Guide contains information about:

• Analysis of Run 1 $pp$ data found on the CERN Open Data portal.
• Usage of the LHCb Ntupling Service for exploration of both Run 1 and Run 2 $pp$ data.