Prospects for New Physics in CP Violation and Rare Decays at LHCb

Abstract

LHCb is the heavy flavour precision experiment of the proton-proton Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. It will search for new physics in CP violation and rare decays and is ready for the start-up of the LHC. An overview of its physics program will be given, illustrated by few key examples: measurements of the CKM angle $\gamma$, of the CP violating phase in $B_s\overline{B_s}$ oscillations and searches for new physics in $B_d^0\to K^{\ast }{\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}$ and in $B_s^0\to {\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}$.

arXiv commentPANIC08 conference proceedings, 3 pages