LHCb
E3749
LHCb is a particle physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider focused on studying the differences between matter and antimatter through precise measurements of beauty and charm quark decays.
All labels observed (12)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| LHCb canonical | 11 |
| LHCb experiment | 9 |
| LHCb collaboration | 3 |
| LHCb detector | 2 |
| CMS experiment | 1 |
| LHCb Collaboration | 1 |
| LHCb Upgrade I | 1 |
| LHCb Upgrade II | 1 |
| LHCb detector upgrades | 1 |
| LHCb experimental cavern | 1 |
| LHCb interaction point | 1 |
| Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20802 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: LHCb Context triple: [CERN, hostsExperiment, LHCb]
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A.
Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, used to smash subatomic particles together at unprecedented energies to study fundamental physics, including the Higgs boson.
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B.
CERN
CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research, renowned for its large particle accelerators and fundamental physics experiments that have led to major discoveries such as the Higgs boson.
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C.
Linac4
Linac4 is a linear accelerator at CERN that serves as the first stage of the proton acceleration chain for the Large Hadron Collider and other experiments.
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D.
W boson
The W boson is a massive elementary particle that mediates the weak nuclear force and is responsible for processes like beta decay in the Standard Model of particle physics.
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E.
Baade Telescope
The Baade Telescope is one of the twin 6.5-meter Magellan optical telescopes used for cutting-edge astronomical research in Chile.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: LHCb Target entity description: LHCb is a particle physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider focused on studying the differences between matter and antimatter through precise measurements of beauty and charm quark decays.
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A.
Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, used to smash subatomic particles together at unprecedented energies to study fundamental physics, including the Higgs boson.
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B.
CERN
CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research, renowned for its large particle accelerators and fundamental physics experiments that have led to major discoveries such as the Higgs boson.
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C.
Linac4
Linac4 is a linear accelerator at CERN that serves as the first stage of the proton acceleration chain for the Large Hadron Collider and other experiments.
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D.
W boson
The W boson is a massive elementary particle that mediates the weak nuclear force and is responsible for processes like beta decay in the Standard Model of particle physics.
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E.
Baade Telescope
The Baade Telescope is one of the twin 6.5-meter Magellan optical telescopes used for cutting-edge astronomical research in Chile.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
LHC experiment
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flavor physics experiment ⓘ particle physics experiment ⓘ |
| aim |
precision tests of the Standard Model
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search for new physics via flavor observables ⓘ |
| collaborationCountries | over 15 countries ⓘ |
| collaborationSize | over 1000 scientists ⓘ |
| collaborationType | international collaboration ⓘ |
| collisionType |
nucleus–nucleus collisions
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proton–nucleus collisions ⓘ proton–proton collisions ⓘ |
| constructionPeriod | 2000s ⓘ |
| country |
France
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Switzerland ⓘ |
| dataFormat | ROOT ⓘ |
| designLuminosity | lower than ATLAS and CMS ⓘ |
| fullName |
LHCb
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment
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| fundingSource | member state funding agencies ⓘ |
| geometry | single-arm forward spectrometer ⓘ |
| hasSubsystem |
RICH detectors
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VELO ⓘ calorimeter system ⓘ data acquisition system ⓘ muon system ⓘ tracking system ⓘ trigger system ⓘ vertex locator ⓘ |
| locatedAt |
CERN
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Large Hadron Collider ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Geneva metropolitan area
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surface form:
Geneva region
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| locatedOn | LHC interaction point 8 ⓘ |
| notableResult |
discovery of exotic hadrons
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measurements of heavy baryon properties ⓘ observation of rare B meson decays ⓘ precise measurements of CP violation in B mesons ⓘ tests of lepton flavor universality ⓘ |
| operatedBy | CERN ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
Large Hadron Collider
ⓘ
surface form:
CERN LHC programme
|
| pseudorapidityCoverage | approximately 2 < η < 5 ⓘ |
| researchField |
CP violation
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flavor physics ⓘ heavy flavor physics ⓘ high energy physics ⓘ particle physics ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
CP violation in B mesons
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CP violation in D mesons ⓘ baryon decays ⓘ beauty quark decays ⓘ central exclusive production ⓘ charm quark decays ⓘ fixed-target physics ⓘ heavy ion collisions ⓘ heavy quark production ⓘ matter–antimatter asymmetry ⓘ quarkonia production ⓘ rare decays ⓘ searches for physics beyond the Standard Model ⓘ |
| startOfDataTaking | 2010 ⓘ |
| upgradePhase |
LHCb
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
LHCb Upgrade I
LHCb self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
LHCb Upgrade II
Run 3 upgrade ⓘ |
| usesAccelerator | Large Hadron Collider ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: LHCb Description of subject: LHCb is a particle physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider focused on studying the differences between matter and antimatter through precise measurements of beauty and charm quark decays.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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CMS experiment
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Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment
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LHCb Upgrade I
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LHCb Upgrade II
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LHCb interaction point
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LHCb experiment
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LHCb experiment
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LHCb collaboration
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LHCb experimental cavern
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LHCb experiment
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LHCb detector
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LHCb detector upgrades
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LHCb detector
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LHCb Collaboration
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LHCb experiment
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LHCb experiment
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LHCb experiment
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LHCb experiment