Charm Physics 1996 - A Retrospective

Abstract

A pedagogically oriented review is given of progress made over the past year in our understanding of physics related to the charm quark. Included are discussions of the R_c deficit, the ψ' anomaly, charm spectroscopy, D nonleptonic decays, searches for flavor-changing neutral currents, new limits on D^0 - {\bar D}^0 mixing and prospects for future experimental studies of the charm sector.

11 pages, LaTeX, 5 figures, 7 tables. Invited talk at Fourth KEK Topical Conference on Flavor Physics, 29-31 October 1996. To be published in Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.)

References in corpus (13)

• Leptonic and Semileptonic Decays of Charm and Bottom Hadrons
• Color-Octet Contributions to $J/\psi$ Photoproduction
• Color-octet mechanism in $\gamma +p\to J/\psi +X$
• The $c\to u\gamma$ Contribution to Weak Radiative Charm Decay
• Nonleptonic Decays and Lifetimes of b-quark and c-quark Hadrons
• Charm nonleptonic decays and final state interactions
• Search for D0 - D0_bar Mixing in Semileptonic Decay Modes
• Charmed Baryon Masses in Chiral Perturbation Theory
• Large-$p_{\perp }$ Heavy-Quark Production in Two-Photon Collisions
• Spectator effects in semileptonic decay of charmed baryons
• Measurement of B(D_s+ -> mu+ nu_mu)/B(D_s+ -> phi mu+ nu_mu) and Determination of the Decay Constant f_{D_s}
• A New Interpretation of the Observed Heavy Baryons
• The Ξ_Q - Ξ_Q' Mixing and Heavy Baryon Masses