Studies of forward particle production with LHCb

Abstract:
LHCb is the smallest of the four large LHC experiments. 
The excellent tracking, vertexing and particle identification 
capabilities of the detector allow to study particle production 
at polar angles between 10 and 250 mrad with respect to the beam. 
Initially designed for heavy flavour physics in proton-proton 
collisions, the physics scope nowadays covers also QCD and 
electroweak physics, as well as the study of proton-ion and 
fixed target interactions. For the different environments 
accessible to the experiment, the talk will focus on production
measurements in the forward region.