LHCb Upgrade plans:

Speaker: Franz Muheim, University of Edinburgh

Abstract:

The baseline plans of the LHCb experiment are to operate for five years
at a luminosity of 2x10^32 cm^-2s^-1 and to accumulate a data sample of
10 fb^-1. Here we discuss the physics programme and detector design for
a future high luminosity phase of the LHCb experiment. The upgraded LHCb
experiment will operate at a luminosity which is an order of magnitude 
higher. The aim is to collect a data sample of the order of 100 fb^-1 
over a five year period. This programme would allow a detailed investigation 
of the New Physics if it were observed at the LHC. The most important 
measurements will include the B_s mixing phase phi_s which is very small in 
the Standard Model, a very precise determination of the CKM angle gamma in 
tree diagram decays. In flavour changing neutral currents, New Physics can 
be probed in the weak mixing phase of B_s -> phiphi decays with a precision 
of a few degrees. New Physics can also be studied in very rare B decays such as 
B_d -> K*mu+mu- and B_s -> mu+mu-. Initial studies of the required modifaction 
to the LHCb trigger and detectors will be presented. The upgrade LHCb 
experiment will not require modifications to the LHC.