Charm physics

Abstract

We review recent developments in charm physics, focusing on the physics of charmed mesons. We discuss recent progress in charm spectroscopy and the multitude of mesonic and baryonic exotic states containing charm quarks. We review searches for new physics with charmed mesons with rare decays. We also touch upon recent theoretical and experimental progress in searches for CP-violation in charm decays and the status of $$D^0-\overline{D}{}^0$$ D 0 - D ¯ 0 mixing.

b-Quark physics as a precision laboratory: a collection of articles on the present status and future prospects

“…The Charm quark offers a complementary approach to fundamental physics and, with its mass of around 1.2 GeV, an interesting, although difficult system to study QCD. In his contribution, Alexey Petrov gives a fascinating overview [13] of the studies possible with charm quarks.…”