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Central production of mesons: Exotic states versus Pomeron structure

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We demonstrate that the azimuthal dependence of central meson production in hadronic collisions, when suitably binned, provides unambiguous tests of whether the Pomeron couples like a conserved vector-current to protons. We discuss the possibility of discriminating between q-qbar and glueball production in such processes. Our predictions apply also to meson production in tagged two-photon events at electron--positron colliders and to vector-meson production in ep collisions at HERA.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9902243,
  title  = {Central production of mesons: Exotic states versus Pomeron structure},
  author = {F. E. Close and G. A. Schuler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9902243},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

15 pages, latex, no figure