Charm Physics 1996 - A Retrospective

Abstract

A pedagogically oriented review is given of progress made over the past year in our understanding of physics related to the charm quark. Included are discussions of the R_c deficit, the \psi' anomaly, charm spectroscopy, D nonleptonic decays, searches for flavor-changing neutral currents, new limits on D^0 - {\bar D}^0 mixing and prospects for future experimental studies of the charm sector.

Comments: 11 pages, LaTeX, 5 figures, 7 tables. Invited talk at Fourth KEK Topical Conference on Flavor Physics, 29-31 October 1996. To be published in Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.)