Introduction to Charm Physics

Abstract

This paper gives an overview of charm physics. It is a lecture write-up aimed at students with a minimum of prior knowledge in particle physics, but at the same time provides a state-of-the art review of the field. The main focus is on mixing and CP violation, which is a field with ever growing attention since first evidence for charm mixing was observed in 2007. Other areas covered are charm spectroscopy, production, as well as rare decays. Flavorful Ways to New Physics

Theory overview

“…from LHCb or BESIII (see e.g. [7]) and there is much more to come from Belle II [8], the LHC-upgrade [9], BESIII [10] and PANDA [11].…”

Testing discrete symmetries at a super τ -charm factory

“…A number of routes toward CP violation measurements in charm decays are under study in the literature and have been discussed at length elsewhere, for example, in Refs. [4][5][6]; here we review additional possibilities for probing discrete symmetries that complement the traditional routes. The remainder of this paper discusses the use of tripleproduct asymmetries with four-body decays to test C, P , and CP (Section 2) and the use of entangled pairs of D mesons produced in the decay of ψ(3770) mesons to test CP , T , and CP T (Section 3).…”