Prospects for Charm CP Violation Studies in BTeV

TL;DR

The BTeV experiment at Fermilab aims to significantly advance charm physics by reconstructing over a billion charm decays, enabling detailed studies of CP violation, rare decays, and mixing phenomena with potential to observe Standard Model predicted effects.

Contribution

This paper discusses the prospects of the BTeV experiment to explore charm CP violation and rare decays with unprecedented data volume and sensitivity.

Findings

Potential to observe direct CP violation in D decays

Enhanced sensitivity to charm mixing and rare decays

Significant new physics reach beyond current experiments

Abstract

The BTeV experiment at Fermilab could reconstruct >10^9 charm decays, three orders of magnitude beyond the largest extant sample. The experiment is likely to run during Tevatron Run II. It will have significant new-physics reach in the areas of charm CP violation, flavor-changing neutral-current and lepton-number-violating decays, and D0 anti-D0 mixing, and could observe direct CP violation in Cabibbo-suppressed D decays if it occurs at the level predicted by the Standard Model.