High-Impact Charm Physics at the Turn of the Millennium

Abstract

I review the sensitivities achieved by and projected for fixed-target charm experiments in CP violation, flavor-changing neutral-current and lepton-number-violating decays, and mixing, and I describe the Charm2000 experiment intended to run at Fermilab in the Year ~2000. If approved, Charm2000 will in many of these areas exceed the sensitivities projected for a Tau/Charm Factory, but the Tau/Charm Factory retains certain qualitative advantages.

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