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LHCb - A High Energy Physics Experiment Studying CP Violation at CERN's Large Hadron Collider

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565 scientists from 47 universities and laboratories from 15 countries are involved in the design and construction of LHCb, with support from many hundreds of technicians and engineers.

   
  Ever wondered why you're not made of antimatter?

... that's just what the LHCb experiment aims to find out. In the Big Bang, the beginning of our Universe, matter and antimatter were created in equal amounts. But somehow the antimatter disappeared and our Universe formed from just the matter that remained. Physicists think a strange effect called "CP violation" plays an important part in the story.

So what is "CP violation"?,  and where did all the antimatter go?

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Professor Frank Close explains
CP violation :

The LHCb apparatus, ready in 2005, will be the
most sensitive instrument
ever created to detect tiny differences between matter
and antimatter.

 

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See it in 3-D.

watch RealVideo footage of his lecture
"Journey to the Antiworld:
what's the matter with antimatter?"
at the Royal Institution in London,England.

 

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), 100m underground and 27km in circumference, will be the world's largest particle accelerator.

Recent developments in and around LHCb...

      03/11/99: Liverpool is on the MAP!
      16/08/99: NASA balloon hunts antimatter
      18/06/99: It's there! - first CP violation result from NA48
      01/06/99: BABAR and BELLE are running!
      19/05/99: LHCb team comes a magnificent third in CERN relay race!

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