5: Exploring matter–antimatter asymmetry with LHCb

About this episode

This episode explores the mystery of matter-antimatter asymmetry through the LHCb experiment.

Why does our universe seem to be made almost entirely of matter , with barely any antimatter in sight? Join us as we dive in this podcast episode of Early Morning Coffee at CERN (Emc2) into the fascinating world of LHCb, the LHC's beauty experiment, with two leading experimentalists, Yasmine Amhis and Patrick Koppenburg. We explore how the LHCb experiment is probing CP violation to studying hadrons containing b and c quarks and preparing for the High-Luminosity LHC era. Discover what makes LHCb unique—its asymmetric design and its remarkable success in identifying new hadrons. Contributors: Director, Producer & Editor: Chetna Krishna Host: Steven Goldfarb Production Assistant: Joni Pham Guests: Yasmine Amhis and Patrick Koppenburg Executive Producer: Jacques Fichet Technical Lead: Ron Suykerbuyk Sound Engineering: Piotr Traczyk Original theme: Canettes Blues Band

People in this episode

Host: Steven Goldfarb

Guests: Yasmine Amhis, Patrick Koppenburg

Topics covered

• matter-antimatter asymmetry
• LHCb
• CP violation
• hadrons
• b quarks
• c quarks
• High-Luminosity LHC

Keywords

• matter
• antimatter
• LHCb
• CP violation
• hadrons
• b quarks
• c quarks
• High-Luminosity LHC

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CERN

Books & works: Canettes Blues Band

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