Heavy flavour physics provides excellent opportunities to indirectly search for new physics at very high energy scales and to study hadron properties for deep understanding of the strong interaction.The LHCb experimen...Heavy flavour physics provides excellent opportunities to indirectly search for new physics at very high energy scales and to study hadron properties for deep understanding of the strong interaction.The LHCb experiment has been playing a leading role in the study of heavy flavour physics since the start of the LHC operations about ten years ago,and made a range of high-precision measurements and unexpected discoveries,which may have far-reaching implications on the field of particle physics.This review highlights a selection of the most influential physics results on CP violation,rare decays,and heavy flavour production and spectroscopy obtained by LHCb using the data collected during the first two operation periods of the LHC.The upgrade plan of LHCb and the physics prospects are also briefly discussed.展开更多
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant Nos.2017YFA0402100 and 2022YFA1601900the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)under Grant Nos.11435003,11575091,11575094,11925504,11975015,12175245,12175005,11705209,12205312,12275100,11961141015 and 12061141007Chinese Academy of Sciences,Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,Peking University Funds for the New Faculty Startup program.We thank Franz Muheim and Niels Tuning for suggestions in improving the draft.
文摘Heavy flavour physics provides excellent opportunities to indirectly search for new physics at very high energy scales and to study hadron properties for deep understanding of the strong interaction.The LHCb experiment has been playing a leading role in the study of heavy flavour physics since the start of the LHC operations about ten years ago,and made a range of high-precision measurements and unexpected discoveries,which may have far-reaching implications on the field of particle physics.This review highlights a selection of the most influential physics results on CP violation,rare decays,and heavy flavour production and spectroscopy obtained by LHCb using the data collected during the first two operation periods of the LHC.The upgrade plan of LHCb and the physics prospects are also briefly discussed.
