Speaker
Mr
Deniz Mostarac
(Stefan Meyer Institut, OEAW, Vienna)
Description
Proton-proton collisions at LHC can be used to study Central Exclusive diffractive Production (CEP). In CEP the scattering protons remain intact, but exchange sufficient energy to create a new particle X at central rapidity. Experimentally these events are identified by their rapidity-gap topology, with particle production at small rapidities and particle voids at larger rapidities. The centrally produced X is studied by its decay into pairs of pions and kaons.
In this poster we present a CEP study carried out with the ALICE detector. Special emphasis is put on the X-mass region below 2.5 GeV/c2 which hosts a number of known scalar mesons and presumably also the lightest glueball.
Authors
Mr
Deniz Mostarac
(Stefan Meyer Institut, OEAW, Vienna)
Paul Alois Buhler
(Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physics (SMI), Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
