The CERN-based Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment is one of the largest particle physics experiments ever conducted. The detector is situated at one of the four experimental points around the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva and is unique among the LHC experiments in being optimised to study types of particles called beauty and charm quarks.
In December 2025, the LHCb collaboration, made up of around two thousand members from 73 institutes in 12 different countries, elected Prof. Tim Gershon from the University of Warwick to be its eighth Spokesperson, for a three-year term starting July 2026. As Spokesperson, he will lead the management team of the LHCb.
"It is a huge honour to be elected to be LHCb spokesperson," says Professor Tim Gershon, Department of Physics, University of Warwick. "LHCb is a remarkably successful experiment, which has already achieved far more than was foreseen in its original design."
Tim has been a staff member at Warwick since 2005 and joined the LHCb collaboration in 2008. He and his group at Warwick have been involved in collecting and analysing the data since the very first particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider in 2009. In recent years, the Warwick group has also dedicated an increasing amount of effort to developing new detectors to enable a future upgrade of LHCb.
Professor Gershon continues: "The planned major upgrade of LHCb will allow us to make another dramatic step-change in our knowledge of the microscopic world. I am excited by the challenge of pushing our unique science programme forward in the next three years."
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About the LHCb collaboration
LHCb is an experiment set up to explore what happened after the Big Bang that allowed matter to survive and build the Universe we inhabit today. Fourteen billion years ago, the Universe began with a bang. Crammed within an infinitely small space, energy coalesced to form equal quantities of matter and antimatter. But as the Universe cooled and expanded, its composition changed. Just one second after the Big Bang, antimatter had all but disappeared, leaving matter to form everything that we see around us - from the stars and galaxies, to the Earth and all life that it supports.
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