Mini-review of charmonium weak decays at BESIII

Abstract

The weak decays of charmonium, involving $J/ψ$ and $ψ(2S)$ states, are instrumental in probing both non-perturbative QCD dynamics and flavor structure of the standard model~(SM). The extremely rare nature of charmonium weak decays makes them highly sensitive to new physics beyond the SM, particularly in channels heavily suppressed in the SM, such as flavor-changing neutral current~(FCNC) decays. This review highlights the critical role of the BESIII experiment, which leverages an unprecedented dataset of over $10^{10}$ $J/ψ$ events and $2.7\times10^{9}$ $ψ(2S)$ events to push the sensitivity of charmonium weak decay searches. We present the latest and most stringent upper limits established by BESIII on various semi-leptonic, non-leptonic, and FCNC charmonium weak decay channels.

Figures (3)

• Figure 1: Tree level Feynman diagram for charmonium semi-leptonic decay $J/\psi \to D_{(s)}^{-} l^+ \nu_l$. The diagram is drawn by JaxoDrawJaxodraw_ref
• Figure 2: Tree level Feynman diagram for charmonium non-leptonic weak decays $J/\psi \to D_{s}^{-} \pi^{+}$.
• Figure 3: Feynman diagram for charmonium FCNC decay $J/\psi \to \bar{D}^0 l^+ l^-$.