The role of secondary reggeons in central meson production

N. I. Kochelev; T. Morii; B. L. Reznik; A. V. Vinnikov

doi:10.1007/s100500070094

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The role of secondary reggeons in central meson production

N. I. Kochelev¹^*, T. Morii², B. L. Reznik³ and A. V. Vinnikov¹^,3

¹ Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Moscow region, 141980, Russia
² Faculty of Human Development, Division of Sciences for Natural Environment and Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University, Nada, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan
³ Far Eastern State University, Sukhanova 8, GSP, Vladivostok, 690600, Russia

Received: 10 May 2000
Revised: 4 June 2000
Published online: 15 September 2000

Abstract

We estimate the contribution of f2 trajectory exchange to the central η and η′ production. It is shown that secondary reggeons may give a large contribution to processes of double diffractive meson production at high energies.

PACS: 12.40.Nn Regge theory, duality, absorptive/optical models – / 13.60.Le Meson production – / 12.39.Mk Glueball and nonstandard multi-quark/gluon states –