1. Status of the LHCb experiment Andrei Golutvin ( Imperial & CERN & ITEP ) on behalf of the LHCb Collaboration Outline:  Introduction  Detector Subsystems  Trigger/Online/Computing  Cost and funding issues  Collaboration matters  Physics goals in 2010 RRB October 2009 1

2. 2  The installation of LHCb is fully completed, including M1 station  All detector elements are commissioned and ready for data taking Read out at 1 MHz successfully tested  Full Experimental System Test (FEST), which is able to inject MC data to Event Filter Farm, is used for the HLT commissioning  Strategy for trigger and subsequent physics analysis of the 2009-2010 Run is prepared  LHCb is fully operational for the Physics Run in 2010 RRB October 2009 Brief Summary

3. LHCb Collaboration 3 700 members 15 countries 52 intitutes RRB October 2009

4. 4 Beam Pipe (CERN) 23 m long beam pipe consisting of 3 Be and 1 stainless steel sections The procurement of a replacement beam pipe UX85/3B is underway It is fully budgeted by CERN Design of optimized beam pipe supports with reduced material is ongoing Magnet (CF) Warm dipole magnet with 4 Tm bending power along the beam axis Magnet was powered in July and September 2009 to perform a survey on the support of TT and RICH-1 shielding using CCD cameras. Much improved stability  no other intervention on the support structures needed

5. VErtex LOcator (CH,DE,GB,NL) 2×21 pairs of Si sensors arranged in 2 halves; each pair consists of one sensor with R- and one sensor with  -strips 5 RRB October 2009 VELO is now ~100% operational –LV and HV system are operating stable LV spares situation substantially improved due to delivery of spares from CAEN – DAQ read out at 1 MHz –Online and offline monitoring finalized –Vacuum and cooling systems fully operational Until September 2009 the temperature was kept at -5°C. Lowered to the nominal -30°C for the recent TED RUN (completed Yesterday) in readiness for full data taking –VELO interlock box ready (including spare) –The build of the VELO replacement continues. ~50% of modules, capton cables and vacuum feedthroughs complete

6. RRB October 2009 6 TI8 LHC - Transfer line External beam Dump - Shots every 48 seconds - Joint work with TT/IT/ST and SPD - Typical occupancy of 7 clusters/sensor/event The procedure to tune the timing tested with data Timing accuracy < 2 ns can be achieved with ~ 100 clusters/sensor/step Timing is monitored online VELO experience with TED runs

7. RRB October 2009 7 Results with 255 tracks:  Histogram 2.163 mm (  = 0.080 mm)  Milliepede2.156 mm The halves were moved by a “secret” amount (450  m). Results with 852 tracks:  Histogram2.611 mm (  = 0.087 mm)  Milliepede 2.601 mm Very Preliminary Very Preliminary VELO was moved by 445 ± 10  m Evaluation of the distance between 2 VELO halves using TED data

8. RRB October 2009 8 Outer Tracker – OT (CERN,CF,CN,DE,NL,PL) Three stations with each 4 stereo layers of straw tubes 5 mm diameter and 5m length; 55k channels OT Calo Muon Outer Tracker is ready for data taking Installation and test of FE electronics completed OT read out at 1.11 MHz HV test continued, 99.9% channels ok! Likely a large fraction of remaining 0.1% can be recovered The anti-ageing treatment of detector modules at 40°C in situ has been completed. Gas system modified to allow an oxygen admixture if necessary Initial time and space alignment within expectations The procedures for further offline improvements give expected results. High level data quality monitoring is being finalized

9. RRB October 2009 9 - 2 FE boxes show high rate issues - 3 FE boxes (at the edge of acceptance) dismounted Status of the Front End electronics (9 / 2009)

10. RRB October 2009 10 without alignment with alignment T1 T2 T3 OT spatial alignment using cosmics (using drift time information) Alignment accuracy better than 100  m using only 10k tracks

11. ST: Trigger Tracker & Inner Tracker (CERN,CH,DE,ES,UA) TT covers area of 1.4  1.2 m 2 ; 4 stereo layers with ladders consisting of 3 or 4 chained Si- sensors with strip pitch 183 micron; 143k channels IT: 3 stations with 4 boxes each arranged around beam pipe; each box has 4 stereo layers x-u-v-x, modules with one or two chained Si-sensors; strip pitch 198 micron; 130k channels RRB October 2009 11 ST is ready for data taking After repair work during shutdown 99.7% IT channels and 98.6% TT channels are operational Both detectors successfully read out at 1 MHz Detailed studies of detector performance using TED data; IT ladders aligned to < 20  m precision Remaining concern is the broken bonds appearing on seven TT modules. Four of the effected modules replaced with spares; three left in situ to study the evolution in the pit. Order new hybrids in the next months.

12. RRB October 2009 12 Innermost bond row affected Effect not reproduced in the lab (despite of extensive studies applying vibrations & thermal cycling) Possible causes: Initial cracks due to the bonding process, typically occur at first bonds Loop height (should be > 25%)

13. RRB October 2009 13 Three modules left in situ in order to study progress of the problem Order for new hybrids to be placed

14. RRB October 2009 14 ST analysis of TED data

15. RRB October 2009 15 IT ladders aligned to precision of ~14  m TT alignment requires better understanding of VELO seeds Expect from the analysis of recent TED run: - Improved quality of VELO-TT & IT-TT tracks - Improved timing

16. RICH (CERN,CF,GB,IT) RICH1 and RICH2 with 3 radiators covers momentum rRecent highlighange 2-100 GeV; RICH1: 5cm aerogel with n=1.03 & 4m 3 C4F10 with n=1.0014; RICH2: 100m 3 CF4 with n=1.0005; ~500 HPD to readout RRB October 2009 16 Both RICH1 and RICH2 are complete, commissioned and waiting for data Recent highlight is the observation of Cherenkov rings from the aerogel and gas ( C 4 F 10 ) radiators using cosmic rays  convincing test of the online monitoring and offline reconstruction software. Estimate of lifetime is well established process for each HPD. The details of repair process of all degraded tubes agreed with DEP-PHOTONIS. Tubes expected to fail in RICH-2 in 2009/2010 are being replaced (14 HPD available). Timing alignment, in particular for RICH-2. RICH-1 Magnetic Distortion Monitoring System tested. Some HV supplies were showing short saturation glitches. Cause identified by the manufacturer. All HV suppliers repaired.  Overall stability is now satisfactory

17. LHCb RICH1 sees rings with cosmic rays (RICH1 has two radiators: aerogel and gas) Ratio of the rings radii corresponds to the ratio of the gas and aerogel refractive indexes Aerogel ring Gas ring 17RRB October 2009

18. Excellent Signal/Noise of HPD (only a few out of ~10 5 active channels were noisy). Number of detected Cherenkov photons agree with expectations 18RRB October 2009

19. Calorimeters (CERN,CF,ES,FR,RO,RU,UA) PS/SPD: 12k scint. tiles readout by WLS; ECAL: 6k shashlik cells; HCAL: TILE Calo, 1.5k channels 19 RRB October 2009 The four calorimeters system SPD/PS/ECAL/HCAL is fully operational Much improved stability of the 6000 ECAL channels modified during 2008/2009 shutdown. PMT gain measurements agree within 5% with earlier test measurements  ~10% inter-calibration at the start-up HCAL is inter-calibrated to <4% using the Cesium source All calorimeters are successfully read out at 1 MHz SPD/PS/ECAL/HCAL time aligned within 3 ns Further improved using TED data Emphasis on ECAL calibration procedures and data quality controls

20. RRB October 2009 20 Timing inside crate & Front End card PS / ECAL / HCAL aligned to < 1ns using TED data Fast improvement expected with a few millions events Improved CALO timing using TED data

21. RRB October 2009 21 (G(LED) – G(HAM)) / G(LED) Mean: 2.3% R.M.S.: 11.4% Comparison of the ECAL PMT gain measured in situ with previous measurements (@ LAL and Hamamatsu) PMT gain can be measured in situ using LED calibration system Taking into account that all modules have been measured at cosmics before the installation ECAL is inter-calibrated to ~ 10% at the start-up Several methods to reach 1% level using  0 signals have been tested with MC data

22. Muon (CERN,CF,IT,RU) Arranged in 5 SuperLayers; M1 consists of 12 double triple GEM chambers and 264 MWPC’s; M2-M5 consists of 1104 MWPCs 22 RRB October 2009 The installation of M1 station completed in time by July 7 M1 commissioning is nearly completed; M1 included in the global DAQ HV systems operational Commissioning of M2-M5 stations completed Faulty readout channels fixed

23. RRB October 2009 23 02 March 2009: cables and pipes… July 2009: installation completed September 2009: first data! M1 history in brief

24. 24  Hardware level (L0) Search for high-p T μ, e, γ and hadron candidates  Software level (High Level Trigger, HLT) Farm with O(2000) multi-core processors HLT1: Confirm L0 candidate with more complete info, add impact parameter and lifetime cuts HLT2: B reconstruction + selections Trigger & Online &Computing (CERN,CF,CH,DE,FR,ES,GB,IT,NL) High-Level Trigger 2 kHz Level -0 L0 e,  40 MHz 1 MHz L0 had L0  ECAL Alley Had. Alley Global reconstruction 30 kHz HLT1 HLT2 Muon Alley Inclusive selections ,  +track,  topological, charm, ϕ & Exclusive selections Storage: Event size ~35kB  (L0)  (HLT1)  (HLT2) Electromagnetic70 % > ~80 %> ~90 % Hadronic50 % Muon90 % Trigger is crucial as σ bb is less than 1% of total inelastic cross section and B decays of interest typically have BR < 10 -5 RRB October 2009

25. 25 L0 trigger rechecked following improvements in the MUON, CALO and DAQ The integration of M1 underway. L0×HLT1×HLT2 tuned to give an output rate below 2 kHz (for MC data produced at nominal LHCb conditions @ 2×10 32 ). HLT farm has been increased to 550 processing units sufficient to receive 1 MHz trigger rate at nominal event size. The readout network expanded to nominal capacity. Completion of the farm to reach its full CPU power will be decided in the beginning 2010. New MC09 data sample prepared to mimic 2010 conditions. A total of 10 9 min. bias and 100’s billion signal events run on the GRID. Many improvements in the production system. MC09 is being used to tune the trigger settings to the start-up and first physics. Trigger is capable to efficiently select charm in addition to the core B-physics programme.

26. RRB October 2009 26 Cost and Funding Overall cost remains unchanged at 75 MCHF The underfunding in 2005 of 2.6 MCHF for the DAQ CPU Farm, has been covered through extra contributions (BMBF Brazil, France, MPI Germany, Spain, UK, US and CERN) Budget forecast for M&O Cat. A for this year is correct for all the items except Online and Power estimates Collaboration Matters Two new applications for Technical Associates: - Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Tier-1 centre CCIN2P3, Lyon, France Final decision is expected at the next CB in December 2009 Guy Wilkinson (University of Oxford) elected as the next Physics Coordinator starting from January 2010

27. 27 Physics goals in 2010 Early measurements - Calibration signals and minimum bias physics: 10 8 events Key channels available in min bias data with simple trigger: - K s  ππ 95% purities achievable using - Λ  pπ kinematical & vertex cuts ~ 40 mins @ 10 31 With 2 kHz random trigger - J/ψ trigger on single muon with p t cut (600k ev./pb -1 )  one muon unbiased for PID studies and momentum calibration - J/ψ physics & production cross-sections: ~ 1-5 pb -1 Measure diff. cross-section for prompt J/ψ and bb production cross-section (from secondary J/ψ) in region inaccessible to other experiments Λ  pπ RRB October 2009

28. 28 Physics goals in 2010  Charm physics: 20 pb -1 and upward ( Exciting possibilities even with low luminosity) An example: flavour tagged D 0  KK events for measuring y CP y = τ(D 0  Kπ) / τ(D 0  KK) – 1 and corresponding CP asymmetry LHCb can collect ~ 10 5 flavour tagged KK events with 20 pb -1 (same statistics as BELLE with 540 fb -1 ). Similar data sets for many related channels: D 0  ππ, KKππ, K S ππ, K S KK, D +  KKπ … Detailed studies of D  hh (rehearsal for B  hh) - Separate Kπ, KK, ππ and DCS Kπ - Vertex and mass resolutions - Lifetimes Accumulate samples of B  D(Kπ)π (“ADS” control mode) - Study background environment - Look for any evidence of B + / B - asymmetries  Analysis commissioning in hadronic modes RRB October 2009

29. 29 Prospects for most competitive measurements in 2010 With data sample of ~200 pb -1 LHCb should be able to improve Tevatron sensitivity for B s  μμ and ϕ s (present ‘central’ value from Tevatron would be confirmed at 5σ level) B s  μμ ϕsϕs RRB October 2009

30. 30 Conclusion  LHCb is ready for data taking  First data will be used for calibration of the detector and trigger in particular. First exploration of low Pt physics at LHC energies. Some high class measurements in the charm sector may be possible with 50 pb -1  With ~ 200 pb -1 data sample LHCb will reach Tevatron sensitivity in a few golden channels in the beauty sector RRB October 2009

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32. RRB October 2009 32 Calorimeter hardware status Non working channels Non working LED ECAL2/6016none17 PMT changed LED fixed HCAL1/1448none4 PMT changed PS0/601620Cables plugged Patch Panel SPD0/601610% channels Cables cured

33. RRB October 2009 33 M2 M3 M4 M5 2008 2009 Noise rate per logical channel G. Graziani M2-M5 channel map: 2008 vs 2009 A few missing logical channels in 2009 map due to wrong settings (too high threshold)