Investigating the central diffractive f0(980) and f2(1270) meson production at the LHC

Abstract

The central diffractive production of mesons f0(980) and f2(1270) at the energy of CERN-LHC experiment on proton-proton collisions is investigated. The processes initiated by quasi-real photon-photon collisions and by central diffraction processes are considered. The role played by the photon-Odderon production channel is also studied. The cross sections for these distinct production channels are compared and analyzed.

Comments: 7 pages, 4 tables. Final version to be published in Physical Review D. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:hep-ph/0508196, arXiv:hep-ph/0506101 by other authors