https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201612002008
Central Exclusive Production in Proton-Proton Collisions with the STAR Experiment at RHIC
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973 USA
a e-mail: guryn@bnl.gov
Published online: 4 July 2016
We shall describe the physics program with tagged forward protons, focusing on Central Exclusive Production in polarized proton-proton collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), with the STAR detector at √s = 200 GeV. Preliminary results in CEP of two oppositely charged pions and kaons produced in the processes pp → ppπ+π− and pp → ppK+K− shall be presented. Those Double Pomeron Exchange (DPE) processes, allow the final states to be dominated by gluonic exchanges. Silicon strip detectors placed in Roman Pots were used for measuring forward protons. The preliminary results are based on the measurement of the recoil system of charged particles in the STAR experiment’s Time Projection Chamber (TPC). Ionization energy loss, dE/dx, of charged particles was used for particle identification (PID).
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