Flavour physics and the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment

An exciting new era in flavour physics has just begun with the start of the LHC. The LHCb experiment, designed specifically to search for new phenomena in quantum loop processes and to provide a deeper understanding of matter-antimatter asymmetries at the most fundamental level, is producing many new and exciting results. It gives me great pleasure to describe a selected few of the results here, in particular, the search for rare $B^0_s \to \mu^+ \mu^-$ decays and the measurement of the $B^0_s$ CP-violating phase, both of which offer high potential for the discovery of new physics at and beyond the LHC energy frontier in the very near future.