Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2010-05-05
Eur.Phys.J.C69:179-199,2010
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
32 pages, 8 figures. Some discussion added and clarified, version to appear in EPJC
Scientific paper
10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1404-5
Central exclusive production (CEP) processes in high-energy proton -- (anti)proton collisions offer a very promising framework within which to study both novel aspects of QCD and new physics signals. Among the many interesting processes that can be studied in this way, those involving the production of heavy (c,b) quarkonia and gamma gamma states have sufficiently well understood theoretical properties and sufficiently large cross sections that they can serve as `standard candle' processes with which we can benchmark predictions for new physics CEP at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Motivated by the broad agreement with theoretical predictions of recent CEP measurements at the Fermilab Tevatron, we perform a detailed quantitative study of heavy quarkonia (chi and eta) and gamma gamma production at the Tevatron, RHIC and LHC, paying particular attention to the various uncertainties in the calculations. Our results confirm the rich phenomenology that these production processes offer at present and future high-energy colliders.
Harland-Lang L. A.
Khoze Valery A.
Ryskin M. G.
Stirling James W.
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