Central exclusive production at high energies

Abstract

I briefly review several mechanisms of central exclusive production of mesons at high energies. Some illustrative examples for the BNL RHIC, FNAL Tevatron and CERN LHC as well as for lower energies are discussed. Some differential distributions are shown.

Comments: 21, pages, 18 figures, Presented at the Epihany 2009 conference: "Hadron interactions at the dawn of the LHC", 5-7 January 2009; dedicated to the memory of Jan Kwieciński