title: Flavour physics and the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment.
abstract: An exciting new era in flavour physics has just begun with the start of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHCb (where b stands for beauty) experiment, designed specifically to search for new phenomena in quantum loop processes and to provide a deeper understanding of matter-antimatter asymmetries at the most fundamental level, is producing many new and exciting results. It gives me great pleasure to describe a selected few of the results here-in particular, the search for rare B(0)(s)-->μ+ μ- decays and the measurement of the B(0)(s) charge-conjugation parity-violating phase, both of which offer high potential for the discovery of new physics at and beyond the LHC energy frontier in the very near future.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, The Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK. gibson@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
authors.forename: Valerie
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gibson