ΔACP within the Standard Model and beyond

Abstract

Abstract In light of the recent LHCb observation of CP violation in the charm sector, we review standard model (SM) predictions in the charm sector and in particular for ΔA CP. We get as an upper bound in the SM |ΔA CP SM | ≤ 3.6 × 10−4, which can be compared to the measurement of ΔA CP LHCb2019 = (−15.4 ± 2.9) × 10−4. We discuss resolving this tension within an extension of the SM that includes a flavour violating Z′ that couples only to $$ \overline{s}s $$ s ¯ s and $$ \overline{c}u $$ c ¯ u . We show that for masses below 80 GeV and flavour violating coupling of the order of 10−4, this model can successfully resolve the tension and avoid constraints from dijet searches, D 0 − $$ {\overline{D}}^0 $$ D ¯ 0 mixing and measurements of the Z width.