Search for new physics in rare charm decays

by Dominik Stefan Mitzel (CERN)

Friday 29 Jan 2021, 12:30 → 14:00 Europe/London

https://zoom.us/j/304578256

Precision measurements of rare decays of hadrons with heavy quark content are promising ways to search for physics beyond the Standard Model. Heavy, yet unobserved particles and unknown interactions can modify the rate of such a process, change the angular distributions of the decay products, and introduce additional sources of particle-antiparticle asymmetries. Due to difficulties in the description of its low energy dynamics, rare charm decays have been considered as less promising in the past. However, exact or approximate symmetries of the Standard Model allow to construct clean null-test observables, yielding an excellent road to the discovery of New Physics, complementary to existing studies in the beauty and kaon sectors. This talk presents the status of rare charm decays, focusing on recent theoretical concepts and experimental measurements, as well as future prospects.

Connections will begin at 12:30 with the seminar beginning at 13:00.

SeminarManchester.pdf