Review of Charm Sector Mixing and CP Violation

The phenomenology of D0−D0 mixing and CP violation is briefly described. Recent experimental results from BABAR, Belle, CDF, and CLEO-c are reviewed. No evidence for mixing or CP violation is found, and limits are set for the mixing parameters x, y, x′, y′, and several CP-violating parameters. Results are compared to theoretical predictions. Finally, future prospects at BESIII, LHC-b and a Super B-factory are discussed. 1 BRIEF HISTORY The search for D0–D0 mixing began following the discover of the D0 meson at SPEAR [1]. The earliest searches for charm mixing were ‘indirect’, searching for like-sign muons rather than fully reconstructing D0 mesons. The first direct searches recontructed the D0, usually from a D∗+ to tag the initial flavor, and searched for the wrong-sign final state K+π−. After experimental sensitivity to the expected doubly-Cabibbo suppressed (DCS) decayD0 → K+π − was attained the search for charm mix-ing required a time-dependent analysis to disentangle the DCS decay (D0 → K+π−) and mixing followed by Cabibbo favored decay (D0 → D0 → K+π−) amplitudes