Charming Lattice QCD @ CERN 2025

23 Jun 2025, 09:00 → 25 Jun 2025, 15:15 Europe/Zurich

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

Matteo Di Carlo, Felix Benjamin Erben, Jacob Friedrich Finkenrath (CERN), Vera Gülpers (University of Edinburgh), Etsuko Itou, Andreas Jüttner (CERN), Simon Kuberski, Laurent Lellouch (CNRS and Aix-Marseille U.), Saša Prelovšek Komelj, Tobias Tsang (CERN)

Charm-quark physics is emerging as an exciting frontier for discovering new physics. Experiments like LHCb are measuring charm quantities with unprecedented precision, while phenomenology offers powerful tests of the Standard Model, making first-principles results in charm physics timely and essential.

Lattice Quantum Field Theories offer a systematically improvable framework for predicting non-perturbative observables from first principles. Lattice QCD has achieved significant consensus on various observables, such as decay constants and quark masses. Applying Lattice QCD to charm physics holds great potential for uncovering new physics, including insights into CP violation.

The Charming Lattice QCD @ CERN 2025 Theory Institute will bring together experts to discuss the latest advances in charm-quark physics, including hadronic D-decays, D-meson mixing and long-distance effects, inclusive semileptonic decays, radiative charm decays, and charm spectroscopy. The goal is to foster collaboration and develop strategies to improve the precision of theoretical predictions, ensuring synergy between lattice QCD, phenomenology, and experiment.


Confirmed speakers:

- Matthew Black (University of Edinburgh)
- Sebastian Dawid (University of Washington)
- Giuseppe Gagliardi (Università di Roma Tre and INFN sezione di Roma Tre)
- Gregorio Herdoiza (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
- Gudrun Hiller (Technische Universität Dortmund) 
- Andreas Jüttner (CERN and University of Southampton)
- Liuming Liu (Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
- Yan Liu (RIKEN iTHEMS) 
- Dominik Mitzel (Technische Universität Dortmund)
- Rajnandini Mukherjee (University of Edinburgh)
- Mike Peardon (Trinity College Dublin)
- David Wilson (University of Cambridge)

Monday 23 June

09:30 → 10:30 Interplay of Experiment and Theory

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:00 Spectroscopy overview

14:00 → 15:00 Scattering with charmed mesons and baryons

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 → 16:30 $T_{cc}$

16:30 → 17:30 Discussion session

18:00 → 20:00 Reception

Tuesday 24 June

09:30 → 10:30 Pheno overview

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:00 Inclusive decays

14:00 → 15:00 Radiative decays

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 → 16:30 Hadronic $D$-decays

16:30 → 17:30 Discussion session

Wednesday 25 June

09:30 → 10:30 Precision charm physics

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:00 Recent developments of distillation techniques

14:00 → 15:15 Theory Colloquium