Review on D0-antiD0 mixing

TL;DR

This review summarizes the current experimental status of D0-antiD0 mixing, highlighting recent results, techniques, and the first evidence of mixing, while excluding CP violation measurements.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of experimental methods and recent findings in D0-antiD0 mixing, including the first evidence reported by BaBar.

Findings

First evidence of D0-antiD0 mixing by BaBar in D0 -> K+ pi- decays

Summary of results from various two- and three-body final states

Combined analysis of all experimental results

Abstract

We review the current status of D0-antiD0 mixing, with special emphasis in the most recent results. We begin with a discussion of charm mixing and CP violation phenomenology, the evolution with the decay proper time, and physics processes contributing to these. Then we follow with the summary of the main experimental techniques and the results in the various final states. We make use of the analysis reporting the first evidence of D0-antiD0 mixing by BaBar in D0 -> K+ pi- decays as a textbook example, and then we discuss the results from other two-body and three-body final states. We conclude with the combination of all experimental results. Time-integrated CP violation measurements are not discussed here.