Speaker
Mr
Rainer Schicker
(Phys. Inst., Heidelberg)
Description
Central exclusive production at hadron colliders is characterised by the
hadronic state produced at or close to midrapidity, and by the two forward
scattered protons, or remnants thereof. No particles are produced between
the midrapidity system and the forward going beam particles, and such
events can hence be identified experimentally by a double gap topology.
At LHC energies, central exclusive production in proton-proton collisions
is dominated by pomeron-pomeron fusion. I will review the models to
describe such reactions, and will discuss the ongoing efforts in the
ALICE collaboration to analyse double gap events taken in Run II at
the LHC. The prospects of such data taking in Run III will be presented.
Primary author
Mr
Rainer Schicker
(Phys. Inst., Heidelberg)
Co-author
ALICE ALICE Collaboration
(CERN)
