Glueballs and the Pomeron - a central mystery

by Frank CLOSE (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK)

Tuesday 16 May 2000, 16:30 → 16:45 Europe/Zurich

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

Recent data from the WA102 collaboration on the production of mesons in the central region of pp Æ pp + meson appear to provide the first direct way of distinguishing quarkonia and glueball candidates in a single experiment. The data also show that the Pomeron transforms like a non-conserved vector current. The talk will show that this hypothesis explains fully the f and t dependence of meson production with JPC = 0-+, 1++, 2-+ while for the 0++, 2++ sector the data reveal a systematic behaviour that appears to distinguish between qqbar and non-qqbar or glueball candidates. What these results mean, and why they are as they are, is a mystery that the audience will be invited to solve.

Organiser(s): Jasper Kirkby / EP Division

Note: Tea & coffee will be served at 16.00 hrs.