LHCb is one of the four experiments which will be built for the new LHC collider. It is a dedicated experiment for B-physics. LHCb is designed to study CP-violation and rare decays. I am doing a Ph.D. study on this detector. Using computer simulations I analyse the expected performance of the Bs -> Ds K decay channel. This channel is particularly sensitive to the angle gamma of the CKM matrix. LHCb is capable of retrieving a very high statistics sample of Bs -> Ds K events. Besides this, I am also involved in the track reconstruction. This involves developing the software as well as optimising the detector configuration.

For my Ph.D.thesis I am working on the analysis of data from proton-proton and proton-nucleus interactions at intermediate energies(1-3 GEV/c incident proton momentum),and the preparation of the equipment for future investigation of eta-meson production and eta-meson- nucleus final state interactions at energies close to threshold. Study of these reactions is expected to provide important information on the possibility of formation of eta-mesic nuclei,i.e. nuclei with quasi-bound eta-mesons in the final state. The measurments will be perfomed with the GEM detector at the COSY accelerator - IKP Germany. I am also working on the setting and testing of the necessary software for data processing and analysis.