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We report on the first searches for lepton flavour violating $tau^-$ decays at a hadron collider. These include searches for the lepton flavour violating decay $tau^-to mu^+mu^-mu^-$ and the lepton flavour and baryon number violating decays $tau^-to bar{p}mu^+mu^-$ and $tau^-to pmu^-mu^-$. Upper limits of ${cal B}(tau^-to mu^+mu^-mu^-) < 4.6 times 10^{-8}$, ${cal B}(tau^-to bar{p}mu^+mu^-) < 3.4 times 10^{-7}$ and ${cal B}(tau^-to pmu^-mu^-) < 4.6 times 10^{-7}$ are set at 90% confidence level. A measurement of the inclusive $Ztotau^+tau^-$ cross-section at 7 TeV is also reported and is found to be consistent with the Standard Model. The ratio of the $Ztotau^+tau^-$ cross-section to the $Ztomu^+mu^-$ cross-section is found to be consistent with lepton universality.
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Data collected by the LHCb experiment allow proton structure functions to be probed in a kinematic region beyond the reach of other experiments, both at the LHC and further afield. In these proceedings the significant impact of LHCb Run 1 measurements on PDF fits is recalled and recent LHCb results, that are sensitive to PDFs, are described.
We report on the first measurements of the LHCb experiment, as obtained from $pp$ collisions at $sqrt{s} = 0.9$ TeV and 7 TeV recorded using a minimum bias trigger. In particular measurements of the absolute $K^0_S$ production cross section at $sqrt{s} = 0.9$ TeV and of the $bar{Lambda}/Lambda$ ratio both at $sqrt{s} = 0.9$ TeV and 7 TeV are discussed and preliminary results are presented.
LHCb is a dedicated detector for b physics at the LHC. In this article we present a concise review of the detector design and performance together with the main physics goals and their relevance for a precise test of the Standard Model and search of New Physics beyond it.
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