Exploring the Charm Sector with CLEO-c

Abstract

The CLEO collaboration proposes to explore the charm sector starting early 2003. It is foreseen to collect on the order of 6 million D D-bar pairs, 300000 Ds Ds-bar pairs at threshold and one billion J/psi decays. High precision charm data will enable us to validate upcoming Lattice QCD calculations that are expected to produce 1-3% errors for some non-perturbative QCD quantities. These can then be used to improve the accuracy of CKM elements. The radiative J/psi decays will be the first high statistics data set well suited for meson spectroscopy between 1600 and 3000 MeV.

10 pages, Latex, to be published in proceedings of Hadron 2001 Protvino Added Reference to Detector Section. Corrected typo in table 1