Physics with first LHCb data

TL;DR

This paper discusses the initial results from the LHCb experiment at the LHC, focusing on early measurements in heavy-flavour physics and strangeness production, demonstrating the experiment's potential for new physics discoveries.

Contribution

It presents the first preliminary results from LHCb with early data, showcasing its capabilities in heavy-flavour physics and strangeness production analysis.

Findings

Initial measurements of strangeness production

Demonstration of LHCb's potential for heavy-flavour physics

Early data shows promising physics analysis prospects

Abstract

The LHCb experiment is designed for hadronic flavour physics and will look for New Physics manifestations in the decay of charm and bottom hadrons abundantly produced at the LHC. All parts of the LHCb physics programme can be embarked on with the expected statistics to be collected during the first 2010-2011 physics run at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV. We present first preliminary results on strangeness production, and demonstrate, using the few nb-1 of already collected data, the potential for initial measurements in heavy-flavour physics.