Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2011-05-09
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
37 pages, 14 figures. Some discussion added and clarified, version published in EPJC
Scientific paper
10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1714-2
The central exclusive production (CEP) of heavy resonance states that subsequently decay into meson pairs, MMbar, is an important signature for such processes at hadron colliders. However there is a potentially important background from the direct QCD production of meson pairs, as mediated for example by the exclusive gg --> MMbar hard scattering subprocess. This is in fact an interesting process in its own right, testing novel aspects of perturbative QCD technology. We explicitly calculate the gg --> MMbar helicity amplitudes for different meson states within the hard exclusive formalism, and comment on the application of MHV techniques to the calculation. Using these results, we describe how meson pair CEP can be calculated in the perturbative regime, and present some sample numerical predictions for a variety of final states. We also briefly consider the dominant non-perturbative contributions, which are expected to be important when the meson transverse momentum is small.
Harland-Lang L. A.
Khoze Valery A.
Ryskin M. G.
Stirling James W.
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