The
LHCb (standing for "
Large Hadron Collider beauty") experiment is one of seven particle physics detector experiments collecting data at the Large Hadron Collider accelerator at
CERN. LHCb is a specialized
b-physics experiment, that is measuring the parameters of
CP violation in the interactions of b-
hadrons (heavy particles containing a
bottom quark). Such studies can help to explain the
Matter-Antimatter asymmetry of the Universe. The detector is also able to perform measurements of production cross sections and
electroweak physics in the forward region. Approximately 840 people from 60 scientific institutes, representing 16 countries, form the collaboration who built and operate the detector. As of 2014, the spokesperson for the collaboration is Guy Wilkinson. The experiment is located at point 8 on the LHC tunnel close to
Ferney-Voltaire,
France just over the border from
Geneva. The (small)
MoEDAL experiment will share the same cavern.