Charm physics at BESIII

Abstract

The study of mesons and baryons which contain at least one charm quark is referred to as open charm physics. It offers the possibility to study up-type quark transitions. Since the $c$ quark can not be treated in any mass limit, theoretical predictions are difficult and experimental input is crucial. BESIII collected large data samples of $e^{+}e^{-}$ collisions at several charm thresholds. The at-threshold decay topology offers special opportunities to study open charm decays. We present a selection of recent BESIII results. Branching fractions and the $D_{s}^{+}$ decay constant are measured using the leptonic decays to $\mu^{+}\nu$ and $\tau^{+}\nu$. From a data sample of $0.482 fb^{-1}$ collected at the $D_{s}^{+}D_{s}^{-}$ threshold we measure $f_{Ds}=(241 \pm 16.3(stat.) \pm 6.6(sys.)) MeV$. BESIII recently found preliminary evidence of the decay $D_{s}^{+}\rightarrow\tau^{+}\nu$ and with a significance larger than $4 \sigma$ using $2.81 fb^{-1}$ of data at the $D^0\overline{D^0}$ threshold. Using the same data sample the decay $D^0\rightarrow K^0_{S/L} \pi^0(\pi^0)$ is analysed. The branching fractions are measured and using the $CP$ eigenstates $K_{S/L}^0\pi^0$ the $D^0$ mixing parameter $y_{CP} = (0.98 \pm 2.43)\%$ is measured.