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LHCb Online Event Displays

Brandi McVetyOtterbein College

Advisor: Dr. Dirk Wiedner, CERN

University of Michigan NSF REU 2008

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LHCbThe Large Hadron Collider Beauty

Experiment The goal: Gain an understanding of why there exists an imbalance of matter and antimatter in the universe and

search for new physics

The plan: Study CP violation and rare decays, which

will lead to a deeper understanding of

quark flavor physics

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The LHCb Detector

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My Project I am responsible for filling the panels at

Point 8 with information—safety information, incoming data, pictures, news, and other general information

My project could enable people to learn about the state of the LHCb experiment quickly and simply if it is done correctly

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What I’ve Been Up To I started out learning about the LHCb: its

experimental setup and its purpose. 1. Read Technical Proposal from 19982. Visited the LHCb.3. Read Technical Design Report from 2003

I have now proceeded to learning about how to work with web pages and how to create one.

My next step is to start designing the event displays

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Pictures of Detector

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Free Time!