Related papers: Central meson production in diffractive reactions
At high-energies the gluon-gluon fusion is the dominant mechanism of c \bar c production. This process was calculated in the NLO collinear as well as in the kt-factorization approaches in the past. In this presentation we concentrate on…
We discuss diffractive hadron leptoproduction in terms of skewed gluon distributions and within two-gluon exchange model. Connection of the two-gluon approach with skewed gluon distributions is found. The double spin asymmetries for…
We discuss exclusive elastic double diffractive axial-vector \chi_c(1^{+}) meson production in proton-antiproton collisions at the Tevatron. The amplitude for the process is derived within the k_t-factorisation approach with unintegrated…
We discuss single diffractive gauge bosons ($\gamma^*,\,W^{\pm},\,Z$) production in proton-proton collisions at different (LHC and RHIC) energies within the color dipole approach. The calculations are performed for gauge bosons produced at…
At high-energies the gluon-gluon fusion is the dominant mechanism of $c \bar c$ production. This process was calculated in the NLO collinear as well as in the k$_t$-factorization approaches in the past. We show that the present knowledge of…
We explore an alternative process for the diffractive Higgs boson production in peripheral pp collisions arising from Double Pomeron Exchange in photon-proton interaction. We introduce the impact factor formalism in order to enable the…
The production of $\eta'$ mesons in the reactions $\gamma p\to p\eta'$ and $pp\to pp\eta'$ is described consistently within a relativistic meson exchange model of hadronic interactions. The photoproduction can be described quite well over…
The reactions gamma-gamma to eta_c eta_c and gamma gamma to eta_c + X are discussed within the three gluon exchange model. We give predictions for the differential cross-sections and discuss feasibility of measuring these processes at LEP2…
We study the diffractive production of photons in gamma-p and gamma-gamma collisions. We specifically compute the rates for gamma*-p -> gamma-X and for gamma*-gamma* -> gamma-gamma, where X denotes the proton dissociation. We focus on the…
Characteristics of hadron production in diffractive deep-inelastic positron-proton scattering are studied using data collected in 1994 by the H1 experiment at HERA. The following distributions are measured in the centre-of-mass frame of the…
We calculate the differential cross section $d\sigma/dt$ for the diffractive photoproduction process $\gamma p \to \rho p$ and compare to recent data extracted by the CMS collaboration from ultraperipheral proton-lead collisions. Our model…
The gluon content of the proton, in the high-energy regime, is embodied by the unintegrated gluon distribution (UGD), which describes the gluon emission probability, with a given longitudinal momentum fraction and transverse momentum. The…
We present a study of the central exclusive production (CEP) of $\eta$ and $\eta'(958)$ mesons in diffractive proton-proton collisions at high energies. The amplitudes, including pomeron and $f_{2 \mathbb{R}}$ reggeon exchanges, are…
The production of $\eta$ and $\eta'$ mesons is studied in proton-proton and proton-lead collisions collected with the LHCb detector. Proton-proton collisions are studied at center-of-mass energies of $5.02$ and $13~{\rm TeV}$, and…
A study of central meson production as a function of the difference in transverse momentum (dPT) of the exchanged particles shows that undisputed qqbar mesons are suppressed at small dPT whereas the glueball candidates are enhanced. In…
Central production of lepton-lepton pairs ($e^+e^-$ and $\mu^+\mu^-$) and heavy quark composite states (charmonia and bottomonia) in diffractive proton collisions (proton momenta transferred ${|\bf q_\perp}|\sim m/\ln s$) are studied at…
Using the recently proposed $gg\eta'$ effective vertex, we investigate the production of $\eta'$ from gluon fusion in polarized pp collisions. We show that by measuring $A_{LL}$ in $\eta'$ production, one can extract the polarized gluon…
The formalism for treating the leading-twist contributions of the two-gluon Fock components occurring in hard exclusive processes that involve eta and eta' mesons is reviewed. The calculation of the eta, eta'--photon transition form factor…
We critically reexamine the formalism for treating the leading-twist contributions from the two-gluon Fock components occurring in hard processes that involve eta and eta' mesons and establish a consistent set of conventions for the…
We calculate inclusive cross section for $f_2(1270)$ tensor meson production via color singlet gluon-gluon fusion in the $k_t$-factorization approach with unintegrated gluon distribution functions (UGDFs). The process may be potentially…