https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2373-2
Special Article - Tools for Experiment and Theory
Implications of LHCb measurements and future prospects
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CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland
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Institut für Theoretische Physik, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame du Lac, Notre Dame, USA
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Technical University Munich, Excellence Cluster Universe, Garching, Germany
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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Theoretische Teilchenphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA
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TUM-Institute for Advanced Study, Garching, Germany
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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Mississippi, Oxford, USA
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European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, CNRS/Univ. Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France
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Physics Department, King’s College London, London, UK
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Theoretische Elementarteilchenphysik, Naturwissenschaftlich Techn. Fakultät, Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany
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Nikhef, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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LAPTh, Université de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, Annecy-le-Vieux, France
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Institut für Physik, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
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Institute for Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
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Laboratori Nazionali dell’INFN di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
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J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Department of Physics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Durham University, Durham, UK
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Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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Physique des Particules, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
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Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS/IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA
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Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
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Institut de Théorie des Phénomènes Physiques, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Physics Department, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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INFN, Sezione di Roma, Roma, Italy
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Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, USA
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Scuola Normale Superiore and INFN, Pisa, Italy
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DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Center for High Energy Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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LAPP, Université de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, Annecy-Le-Vieux, France
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Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille, France
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LAL, Université Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Orsay, France
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LPNHE, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France
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Fakultät Physik, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
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Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK), Heidelberg, Germany
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Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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School of Physics, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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Sezione INFN di Bari, Bari, Italy
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Sezione INFN di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Sezione INFN di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
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Sezione INFN di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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Sezione INFN di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
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Laboratori Nazionali dell’INFN di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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Sezione INFN di Genova, Genova, Italy
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Sezione INFN di Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy
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Sezione INFN di Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy
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Sezione INFN di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
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Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
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AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland
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National Center for Nuclear Research (NCBJ), Warsaw, Poland
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Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
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Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI), Gatchina, Russia
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Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Moscow, Russia
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Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University (SINP MSU), Moscow, Russia
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Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INR RAN), Moscow, Russia
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Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (SB RAS) and Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
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Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP), Protvino, Russia
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Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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Physik-Institut, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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Nikhef National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Nikhef National Institute for Subatomic Physics and VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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NSC Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology (NSC KIPT), Kharkiv, Ukraine
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Institute for Nuclear Research of the National Academy of Sciences (KINR), Kyiv, Ukraine
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University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom
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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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Oliver Lodge Laboratory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States
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Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Institut für Physik, Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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Institute of Information Technology, COMSATS, Lahore, Pakistan
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University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States
* e-mail: T.J.Gershon@warwick.ac.uk
Received:
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2012
Revised:
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February
2013
Published online:
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April
2013
During 2011 the LHCb experiment at CERN collected 1.0 fb−1 of 
pp collisions. Due to the large heavy quark production cross-sections, these data provide unprecedented samples of heavy flavoured hadrons. The first results from LHCb have made a significant impact on the flavour physics landscape and have definitively proved the concept of a dedicated experiment in the forward region at a hadron collider. This document discusses the implications of these first measurements on classes of extensions to the Standard Model, bearing in mind the interplay with the results of searches for on-shell production of new particles at ATLAS and CMS. The physics potential of an upgrade to the LHCb detector, which would allow an order of magnitude more data to be collected, is emphasised.
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