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Central Exclusive Production at LHCb

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2016-08-30 v1

Abstract

Central Exclusive Production (CEP) is a unique process at hadron machines in which particles are produced via colourless propagators. LHCb have measured the cross-sections for the CEP of vector mesons, J/ψ,ψ(2S),Υ(1S),Υ(2S)J/\psi,\psi(2S),\Upsilon(1S),\Upsilon(2S) and Υ(3S)\Upsilon(3S), which are photo-produced. In the double pomeron exchange process, preliminary measurements have been made of χc0,χc1,χc2\chi_{c0},\chi_{c1}, \chi_{c2} meson production while the first observations of the CEP of pairs of charmonia, J/ψJ/ψJ/\psi J/\psi and J/ψψ(2S)J/\psi \psi(2S), have been made and limits obtained on the pair production of other charmonia.

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@article{arxiv.1608.08103,
  title  = {Central Exclusive Production at LHCb},
  author = {Ronan McNulty},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.08103},
  year   = {2016}
}

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Presented at XXIV International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects, 11-15 April, 2016, DESY Hamburg, Germany

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