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)
- Alessandro De Santis (Helmholtz-Institut Mainz and JGU Mainz)
- Giuseppe Gagliardi (Università di Roma Tre and INFN sezione di Roma Tre)
- Gregorio Herdoiza (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
- Gudrun Hiller (Technische Universität Dortmund) 
- 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

1 Interplay of Experiment and Theory

Speaker: Dominik Stefan Mitzel (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))

10:30 Coffee break

2 Spectroscopy overview

Speaker: David Wilson (University of Cambridge)

12:00 Lunch break

3 Scattering with charmed mesons and baryons

Speaker: Liuming Liu (Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

15:00 Coffee break

4 $T_{cc}$

5 Discussion session

6 Reception

Tuesday 24 June

7 Pheno overview

Speaker: Gudrun Hiller (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))

10:00 Coffee break

8 Inclusive semileptonic decays from lattice QCD: recent developments

Speaker: Alessandro De Santis (Helmholtz-Institut Mainz and Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

9 D-meson mixing

Speaker: Matteo Di Carlo

12:00 Lunch break

10 Radiative decays of charmed mesons from lattice QCD: status and future perspectives

Speaker: Giuseppe Gagliardi

15:00 Coffee break

11 Hadronic $D$-decays

12 Discussion session

Wednesday 25 June

13 Precision charm physics

Speaker: Gregorio Herdoiza

10:30 Coffee break

14 Recent developments of distillation techniques

Speaker: Mike Peardon

12:00 Lunch break

15 Theory Colloquium

Speaker: Max Hansen