Eur Phys J C (2004) 34: s379-s384
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjcd/s2004-04-038-2

VIII. b Physics

CMS B physics reach

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Firenze, Italy

Received: 4 August 2003
Accepted: 3 February 2004
Published online: 13 July 2004

Abstract

At the design luminosity of 10³⁴ cm^–2 s^–1, about 10⁶ pairs are expected to be produced every second at the Large Hadron Collider. With such huge statistics and the precise tracking of the CMS detector B mesons can be investigated for CP violation, mixing and rare decays. The trigger, however, cannot retain all events for a later selection of exclusive B decays. A dedicated trigger strategy, which uses tracking immediately after the first trigger stage, is presented and results on few important benchmark channels are given.