The LHCb upgrade

The physics programme of LHCb, the dedicated B-physics experiment at the LHC, could be significantly enhanced by the collection of increased statistics. A future upgrade to the detector is proposed that will allow the experiment to run at significantly higher instantaneous luminosities (around 10$^{33}$ cm$^{-2}s^{-1}$). Significant changes to the detector which are under consideration include the development of a silicon vertex locator capable of withstanding a fluence in excess of 10$^{15}$ 1 MeV neutron equivalent particles per cm$^{2}$ and the introduction of an FPGA based displaced vertex trigger.