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A study of Double Pomeron Exchange in ALICE

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The non-Abelian nature of QCD suggests that particles that have a gluon constituent, such as glueballs or hybrids, should exist. Experiments WA76, WA91 and WA102 have performed a dedicated search for these states in central production using the CERN Omega Spectrometer. New results from central production show that there is a kinematical filter which can select out glueball candidates from known qqbar states. A further study of this at high energies is essential in order to get information on the M(X0) > 2 GeV region. This paper describes how this could be done using the the ALICE detector at the LHC.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9811230,
  title  = {A study of Double Pomeron Exchange in ALICE},
  author = {A. Kirk and O. Villalobos Baillie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9811230},
  year   = {2007}
}

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17 pages, Latex, 7 Figures