Flavour tagging of neutral B mesons at the LHCb detector

The LHCb (a L ar ge Hadr on Col lider Be auty Exp eriment) c ol lab or ation is involve d in an exp erimental r ese ar ch pr o gr am aiming to p erform, starting in 2007, pr e cise me asur ements of the CP symmetry violation in b -hadr on de c ays pr o duc e d at the fu- tur e LHC c ol lider at CERN. In many CP violation studies at LHCb, it is imp ortant to know the avour state of neutr al B mesons at the time of pr o duction (i.e. to know if it is a B 0 or a B 0 ). This so-c al le d avour tagging is studie d in this do cument. In p articular, the p erformanc e of the curr ent LHCb tagging algorithm is analyze d and optimize d wher ep ossible.