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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) (Evans, The LHC machine, PoS EPS-HEP2009 004, 2009) [1] is a synchrotron particle accelerator with a circumference of 27 Km located about 100 m underground at CERN in the surroundings of Geneva, Switzerland.
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LHCb’s coordinate system is right-handed and has the z axis in the direction of the beam, the x axis directed to the centre of the accelerator and y is directed upward. Then we define \(\theta \) as the angle with the beam direction and \(\phi \) as the position around the beam in the xy plane, taking \(\phi = 0\) on the x axis. The origin, \((x,y,z)=(0,0,0)\), corresponds to the centre of the interaction area.
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Pescatore, L. (2017). The LHCb Detector at the Large Hadron Collider. In: Searching for New Physics in b → sℓ+ℓ− Transitions at the LHCb Experiment. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66423-1_2
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