Exclusive meson pair production in proton-proton collisions · arXivDesk
1208.4288Aug 21, 20124 pp., 4 figures, talk presented by PL at MESON2012 - 12th International Workshop on Meson Production, Properties and Interaction, Krakow, Poland, 31 May - 5 June 2012
Exclusive meson pair production in proton-proton collisions
We present a study of the exclusive production of meson pairs in the four-body pp→ppπ+π−, ppK+K−
Nearby in the stack
reactions at high energies which constitute an irreducible background to resonance states (e.g.
φ
,
f2(1270)
,
f0(1500)
,
f2′(1525)
,
χc0
). We consider central diffractive contribution mediated by Pomeron and Reggeon exchanges and new diffractive mechanism of emission of pions/kaons from the proton lines. We include absorption effects due to proton-proton interaction and pion/kaon rescattering. Predictions for the total cross section and differential distributions in pion/kaon rapidity and transverse momentum as well as two-pion/kaon invariant mass are presented for the RHIC, Tevatron and LHC colliders. Finally we consider a measurement of exclusive production of a scalar
χc0
meson via
χc0→π+π−
,
K+K−
decay.
decay
Piotr Lebiedowicz, Roman Pasechnik, Antoni Szczurek