Central Diffractive Processes at the Tevatron, RHIC and LHC
arXiv:1011.1420 · doi:10.1063/1.3601404
Abstract
Central exclusive production (CEP) processes in high-energy hadron collisions offer a very promising framework for studying both novel aspects of QCD and new physics signals. We report on the results of a theoretical study of the CEP of heavy quarkonia (chi and eta) at the Tevatron, RHIC and LHC. These processes provide important information on the physics of bound states and can probe the current ideas and methods of QCD, such as effective field theories and lattice QCD.
Talk given by V.A. Khoze at International Workshop on Diffraction in High-Energy Physics, Otranto (Lecce), Italy, September 10 - 15, 2010