Status of Charm Flavor Physics

TL;DR

This paper reviews the current status of charm physics in testing the Standard Model, highlighting its potential to uncover new physics through measurements of lifetimes, decay constants, and CP violation, and discussing recent experimental and theoretical progress.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of charm flavor physics, emphasizing recent developments and the role of lattice QCD in enhancing sensitivity to new physics beyond the Standard Model.

Findings

Charm measurements constrain quark mixing and CP violation.

Charm mixing and rare decays are promising probes for new physics.

Progress in lattice QCD improves theoretical predictions.

Abstract

The role of charm in testing the Standard Model description of quark mixing and CP violation through measurements of lifetimes, decay constants and semileptonic form factors is reviewed. Together with Lattice QCD, charm has the potential this decade to maximize the sensitivity of the entire flavor physics program to new physics. and pave the way for understanding physics beyond the Standard Model at the LHC in the coming decade. The status of indirect searches for physics beyond the Standard Model through charm mixing, CP-violation and rare decays is also reported.