THE UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA AT THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER AT CERN (LHCb Experiment)

INSTITUTO GALEGODE FÍSICA DE ALTAS ENERXÍAS

GALICIAN INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS

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STUDY PHYSICS AT THE VERY LOW DISTANCES: (subnuclear scale, attometro 10-18 m)

HEAVY QUARK EXTRACTION FROM VACUUM(bottom, top)

PROTON-ANTIPROTON COLLIDER PRODUCES QUARK-ANTIQUARK PAIRS AT 14 TeV ENERGY

proton

proton

LHCb Objective

Track detector of b-quarks made by the USC (Inner Tracker)

Accurate studies of the CP-violation and the b,t quark coupling

1024 quarks b per year

4.5 Tm MAGNET

micro vertex ofdesintegration

Cherenkov light emision

Time tracking of the fast matter-antimatter oscillation

LHCb Experiment

MEASUREMENT OF THE LACK OF MATTER-ANTIMATTER SYMMETRY

(CP violation)

NEW VERY HEAVY PARTICLES SIGN(Higgs, Supersimmetry)

QUARK MASS ORIGIN

Vacuum pipe of the

LHC ColliderInstallation in the LHC

accelerator

Automatic microwelding of the ASICs of the

front-end electronics (2 million weldings)

Manipulation of microstrips sensors Detection priinciple of charged particle tracks

GRID COMPUTATION TECHNOLOGY FOR THE ANALYSIS OF THE b QUARKS PHYSICS DATA

(CESGA, TIER2, TIER3)

Electrical and thermal ultralight insulationUSC Inner Tracking Assembly TeamSilicon microstrips sensor planesDetail of the microbonding Silicon microstrips grounding scheme

Design and production of the Inner Tracker control electronics and moritoring system

CPUs installation at CESGA and Monte da Condesa