Diffractive production of mesons

TL;DR

This paper reviews the theoretical frameworks and experimental results related to diffractive meson production, highlighting insights from Regge phenomenology and QCD, and summarizing key findings from major collider experiments.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of diffractive meson production, integrating both theoretical descriptions and experimental data from multiple high-energy physics experiments.

Findings

Regge phenomenology effectively describes diffraction processes.

QCD-based models offer insights into meson production mechanisms.

Experimental results confirm theoretical predictions across various colliders.

Abstract

The interest in the study of diffractive meson production is discussed. The description of diffraction within Regge phenomenology is presented, and the QCD-based understanding of diffractive processes is given. Central production is reviewed, and the corresponding main results from the COMPASS experiment and from the experiments at the ISR, RHIC, TEVATRON and LHC collider are summarised.