A Kinematical selection of glueball candidates in central production

Collaboration
Dec, 1996
11 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 397 (1997) 339-344,
  • Phys.Lett.B 410 (1997) 353-353 (erratum)
Report number:
  • CERN-PPE-96-197
Experiments:

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
A study of central meson production as a function of the difference in transverse momentum ( dP T ) of the exchanged particles shows that undisputed q q mesons are suppressed at small dP T whereas the glueball candidates are enhanced.
  • p p: inelastic scattering
  • meson: hadroproduction
  • glueball: search for
  • gluon: exchange
  • quark: exchange
  • exchange: (2pomeron)
  • transverse momentum: difference
  • transverse momentum: spectrum
  • cross section: energy dependence
  • mass spectrum: (pi+ pi-)