A Cicerone for the Physics of Charm

A Cicerone for the Physics of Charm, Part I: Production, Spectroscopy, Lifetimes

— This is part I of a two-part review of charm physics. After briefly recapitulating the history of the charm quantum number we sketch the experimental environments and instruments employed to study the behaviour of charm hadrons and then describe the theoretical tools for treating charm dynamics. After discussing a wide range of inclusive production processes we analyze the spectroscopy of had...

Oral Criticism/ Review of the book Form the Whisper of Tradition to the Charm of the Pop: An Investigation in Contemporary Iranian Music by Alireza Miralinaghi and Arvin SedaghatKish

Charm physics: theoretical review

Charm physics plays a unique dual role in the modern investigations of flavor physics. Charm decay and production experiments provide valuable checks and supporting measurements for studies of CP-violation in measurements of CKM parameters in b-physics, as well as outstanding opportunities for searches for new physics. Historically, many methods of heavy quark physics have been first tested in ...

The Charm Physics Potential of a Tax&charm Factory*

The charm physics program accessible to a Tau-Charm Factory is summarized. Semileptonic,’ leptonic, hadronic, rare and forbidden charm decay modes are discussed, as well as 00 charm sector. The theoretical b” mixing and CP violation in the 73 ectations in the Standard Model and beyond as well as the experiment capabilities of a Tau-Charm Factory are examined for each of the above processes.

Charm Physics with Bes-iii at Bepc-ii

We report on the charm physics potential at BES-III at BEPC-II which will make significant contribution to quark flavor physics this decade. The charm physics program will include studies of leptonic, semileptonic and hadronic charm decays, and tests for physics beyond the Standard Model. Event samples of the order of 30 million DD pairs, 2 million D S D− S pairs at threshold and 10 × 10 J/ψ de...