Exclusive production of pi+ pi- pairs in proton-proton and proton-antiproton collisions

Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Scientific paper

Rate now

  [ 0.00 ] – not rated yet Voters 0   Comments 0

Details

3 pages, 2 figures, talk given at MESON2010 conference, Krakow, Poland, 10-15 June 2010

Scientific paper

10.1142/S0217751X11052724

We report on a detailed investigation of four-body $p p \to p p \pi^+ \pi^-$ and $p \bar{p} \to p \bar{p} \pi^+ \pi^-$) reactions which constitute an irreducible background to three-body processes $p p \to p p M$, where $M$ is a broad resonance in the $\pi^+ \pi^-$ channel, e.g. $M=\sigma, \rho^{0}, f_{0}(980), f_{2}(1275), f_{0}(1500)$. We include double-diffractive contribution (both pomeron and reggeon exchanges) as well as the pion-pion rescattering contributions. The first process dominates at higher energies and small pion-pion invariant masses while the second becomes important at lower energies and higher pion-pion invariant masses. We compare our results with the experimental data. We make predictions for future experiments at PANDA, RHIC, Tevatron and LHC energies. The two-dimensional distribution in rapidity space of pions $(y_{\pi^+}, y_{\pi^-})$ is particularly interesting. The higher the incident energy, the higher preference for the same-hemisphere emission of pions. The processes considered constitute a sizeable contribution to the total nucleon-nucleon cross section as well as to pion inclusive cross section.

No associations

LandOfFree

Say what you really think

Search LandOfFree.com for scientists and scientific papers. Rate them and share your experience with other people.

Rating

Exclusive production of pi+ pi- pairs in proton-proton and proton-antiproton collisions does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with Exclusive production of pi+ pi- pairs in proton-proton and proton-antiproton collisions, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Exclusive production of pi+ pi- pairs in proton-proton and proton-antiproton collisions will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

     

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-704074

  Search
All data on this website is collected from public sources. Our data reflects the most accurate information available at the time of publication.