The LHCb experiment is one of four main experiments to be setup at IP8 point of the proton-proton Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva. The data taking is scheduled to start end 2007. The LHCb detector is a forward single-arm spectrometer conceived ...
Supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model contain nontopological solitons, Q-balls, which can be stable and can be a form of cosmological dark matter. Understanding the interaction of SUSY Q-balls with matter fermions is important for both astrophysi ...