LHCb Commissioning and Potential Early Results

The LHCb (Large Hadron Coolider beauty) detector is designed to study B meson decays with very high precision. The construction and installation of the LHCb detector has been finished early summer 2008. Despite the horizontal geometry of the spectrometer over 1 million cosmic events are collected that allow a first time and space alignment of most of the sub-detectors. Moreover events from beam dumps during the LHC synchronization tests provided very useful data for further calibration. An overview, results from commissioning activities and an outlook on the second startup at the end of 2009, including a brief summary of the potential early physics results, are presented.