Charm Spectroscopy at BaBar

Abstract

We present a mini-review on charm spectroscopy at the BaBar experiment. We first report on the $c\bar{s}$ meson spectrum, and present precise measurements of the $D_{s1}(2536)$ meson as well as the properties of the many new states discovered since 2003 ($D_{s0}^*(2317)$, $D_{s1}(2460)$, $D_{sJ}^*(2860)$, and $D_{sJ}(2700)$ mesons). We then discuss about charmed baryons observed recently in the BaBar experiment: $Ω_c^0$ and $Ω_c^{*0}$ $css$ baryons, $Λ_c(2940)^+$ $udc$ baryon and the $Ξ_c$ $usc/dsc$ baryons.

8 pages, to be published in the proceedings of the XII International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy held at INFN, Frascati, Italy between October 8-13, 2007