Central production of mesons: Exotic states versus Pomeron structure

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4 February 1999

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-ph/9902243

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.

Keywords

CENTRAL MESON PRODUCTION
CENTRAL PRODUCTION
POMERON STRUCTURE
DISCRIMINATING
EXOTIC STATES
COLLISIONS
AZIMUTHAL

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Version 1, 1999-02-04, ArXiv
Published version: Physics Letters B, 458 (1), 127.

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