Status and Prospects for Heavy Flavour Physics at LHC

TL;DR

The paper discusses the potential of the LHC for heavy flavour physics, highlighting initial results, key physics goals like rare decay searches and CP violation measurements, and future upgrade prospects.

Contribution

It provides an overview of LHC's heavy flavour physics program, initial results from 2010 data, and discusses future upgrades and physics prospects.

Findings

Initial heavy flavour results from 2010 data

Potential to observe rare decays like B_s -> mu mu

CP violation measurements in B_s decays and CKM angle gamma

Abstract

The Large Hadron Collider will be a unique place to find new physics in the next decade. A huge production of b and c quarks will allow a rich programme of Heavy Flavour Physics to be carried out either by the multipurpose experiments ATLAS and CMS or by LHCb, the experiment designed for such physics. An overview of the LHC machine and experiments' performances will be given with the first 2010 data. The start-up is very bright and some first LHC heavy flavour results will be presented. The b physics program at LHC will be illustrated with three examples: the searches for rare decays such as B_s -> mu mu, the CP measurements from B_s -> J/psi phi and CP measurements of the Cabibbo Kobayashi Maskawa (CKM) angle gamma. Some prospects for an upgrade of the LHCb detector will also be given.