B Physics at LHC

TL;DR

This paper reviews the preparations and expected capabilities of three LHC experiments—ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb—in studying B physics, emphasizing their potential to test the Standard Model and search for New Physics with early data.

Contribution

It provides an overview of the key parameters, performance, and prospects of the LHC experiments specifically for B physics research, highlighting their complementary roles.

Findings

LHCb is dedicated to B physics studies with specialized capabilities.

ATLAS and CMS will study B mesons alongside other physics goals.

The experiments are poised to produce significant results on Standard Model validation and New Physics searches.

Abstract

Three experiments, among the LHC project, are getting ready to explore the b quark flavour sector. While ATLAS and CMS are general purpose experiments, where the study of B mesons is going to proceed in parallel with the Higgs boson and supersymmetry searches, the LHCb experiment is devoted to B physics studies. The key parameters entering the physics analyses and the performances achieved in all the three experiments are presented. Given the large B physics program foreseen in the LHC experiments, the studies reported in this paper have been selected as those with higher likelihood to provide solid and interesting new results on Standard Model validation and New Physics processes search with early data.