8th International Conference on Position Sensitive Detectors

Session

Opening speeches and welcome

01

1 Sept 2008, 10:20

University of Glasgow

Description

Opening speeches and welcome

154. A word of welcome

Prof. Muir Russell KCB, DL, FRSE (The University of Glasgow)

01/09/2008, 10:20

Opening speeches and welcome

Keynote talk

156. Special Announcement - First tracks reconstructed from LHC beam in the LHCb VELO.

Chris Parkes (Department of Physics and Astronomy)

01/09/2008, 10:35

Opening speeches and welcome

Oral Contribution

At 17:30 on Friday 22nd August LHCb reconstructed in its Vertex Locator (VELO) the first particles from interactions of the LHC beam. The observation was made during an LHC synchronization test. This test collided the proton beam with an absorber 200m from LHCb. The resulting particles from the very first event were reconstructed in the LHCb VELO.