# Physics at LHC 2012

4-9 June 2012
Life Sciences Centre, UBC
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## Charming new physics

7 Jun 2012, 17:00
20m
LSC-3 (Life Sciences Centre, UBC)

### LSC-3

#### Life Sciences Centre, UBC

University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC Canada
Parallel Talk

### Speaker

Yonit Hochberg (Weizmann Institute of Science)

### Description

There is experimental evidence for a direct CP asymmetry in singly Cabibbo suppressed $D$ decays, $\Delta A_{CP}$ of order a percent. Naive expectations are that the Standard Model contribution to $\Delta A_{CP}$ is an order of magnitude smaller. We explore the possibility that a major part of the asymmetry comes from new physics. In this context we discuss accommodating this large contribution to CP violation in charm decays in both a minimal model with an extra scalar doublet,previously suggested to explain the large forward-backward asymmetry in $t\bar t$ production at the Tevatron, as well as in supersymmetric flavor models.

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