G. Lefeuvre

TL;DR: The LHCb experiment is dedicated to precision measurements of CP violation and rare decays of B hadrons at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN (Geneva).

TL;DR: The Vertex Locator (VELO) as discussed by the authors is a silicon microstrip detector that surrounds the proton-proton interaction region in the LHCb experiment, which is operated in vacuum and uses a bi-phase CO2 cooling system.

TL;DR: The Vertex Locator (VELO) as mentioned in this paper is a silicon microstrip detector that surrounds the proton-proton interaction region in the LHCb experiment, and the performance of the detector during the first years of its physics operation is reviewed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an improved understanding of the macroscopic changes of the effective doping concentration based on identification of individual microscopic defects, results from irradiation with a mix of different particle types as expected for the sLHC, and the observation of charge multiplication effects in heavily irradiated detectors at very high bias voltages.

TL;DR: A first alignment of the LHCb Vertex Locator has been obtained from beam induced tracks at the HetNets in this article, where a 450 GeV/c protons collided on a beam absorber during LHC synchronisation tests of the anti-clockwise beam.