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Experimental Particle Physics webinar

Abstract: The LHCb detector is a dedicated flavour physics detector at the LHC, instrumented in the forward region and optimised for the study of B and D hadron decays. However, due to its unique coverage, it has also made important measurements in a number of other sectors, including precision measurements of electroweak bosons and of top quark production in the forward region, which have contributed to our knowledge of QCD and electroweak physics at the LHC. It was also recently pointed out due to the complementary coverage, the uncertainties due to one of the largest uncertainties on measurements of the W boson mass at the LHC, the parton distribution functions, are expected to be anti-correlated between LHCb and the central detectors. Consequently a measurement of the W boson mass at LHCb could have a significant impact in an LHC average, increasing the experimental precision of this fundamental observable even further. In this seminar, a short review of recent results and prospects in the sector of electroweak and top physics at LHCb will be presented, followed by the first measurement of the W boson mass using a dataset of 1.6 fb-1 recorded in 2016.

If someone from outside of the EPP group would like to join the webinar, please send a request to j.nowak@lancaster.ac.uk