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.