The LHCb detector

TL;DR

The paper describes the design, commissioning, and initial testing of the LHCb detector, emphasizing its capabilities for b and c-physics research at the Large Hadron Collider.

Contribution

It provides a detailed overview of the LHCb detector's design, commissioning process, and early results, highlighting its potential for future physics discoveries.

Findings

Successful commissioning with cosmic rays and simulated data

Initial performance results of the detector

Outlook for early physics analyses

Abstract

The LHCb spectrometer is designed with special emphasis on the discovery potential of b and c-physics studies. The main characteristics of the setup are discussed shortly. Since the completion of the LHCb detector, it has extensively been commissioned with cosmic rays, simulated data, beam and beam-induced events. Some commissioning results and an outlook to early physics are presented.