The LHCb experiment features unique detector capabilities, forward acceptance, and a fixed-target system that enable a broad heavy-ion physics program. These features provide opportunities to study unexplored kinematics, collisions systems, and heavy-flavor probes. As a result, LHCb can help disentangle the effects of hadronization, the high-temperature medium, and the initial state configuration of heavy-ion collisions. These proceedings discuss an overview of results presented by the LHCb collaboration at Quark Matter 2025 in Frankfurt, Germany.
Thomas Boettcher (2026) studied this question.