  LHCb is a dedicated b-physics experiment at the future LHC collider. Its
construction has started and it will be ready to take data from the start of
LHC operation, scheduled in 2007, and directly at its full physics potential.
LHCb will benefit from an unprecedented source of b-hadrons, provided by LHC,
to improve substantialy precision measurements of CP violation parameters in
many different and complementary channels. The detector provides good particle
identification, vertexing and has an efficient and flexible trigger. Its status
and expected performance are reviewed.
