First LHCb Results from 2009 LHC Run

TL;DR

This paper reports the initial results from the LHCb detector using 2009 LHC data at 900 GeV, focusing on detector commissioning and preliminary physics prospects at higher energies.

Contribution

It presents the first collision data analysis from LHCb, demonstrating successful detector commissioning and providing early physics outlook at 7 TeV.

Findings

Successful detector alignment and commissioning

Preliminary physics results from initial data

Outlook for physics at 7 TeV in 2010

Abstract

By the end of 2009, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) provided a short run of pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s} = 900 GeV$. The LHCb Experiment has taken its first collision data with the aim to finalize the commissioning of the detector and perform the spatial and time alignments. This paper presents a collection of preliminary results of the LHCb detector obtained with the data acquired in this first LHC run. A brief outlook of the physics expected with the first data in 2010 at 7 TeV centre-of-mass energy is also presented.