Peripheral Production of Sigmas in Proton Proton Collisions

Abstract

The Pomeron, which dominates high energy elastic and diffractive hadronic processes, must be largely gluonic in nature. We use a recent picture of a scalar glueball/sigma system with coupling of the sigma to glue determined from experiment to predict strong peripheral sigma production seen in the p p ${\pi }^o{\pi }^o$ final state.

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