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SUMMARY:Standard Candle Central Exclusive Processes at Hadron Colliders - 
 Lucian Harland-Lang (Cambridge)
DTSTART:20100603T150000Z
DTEND:20100603T160000Z
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CONTACT:Steve Chun Hay Kom
DESCRIPTION:Central exclusive production (CEP) processes in high-energy pr
 oton – (anti)proton collisions offer a very promising framework within w
 hich to study both novel aspects of QCD and new physics signals. Among the
  many interesting processes that can be studied in this way\, those involv
 ing the production of heavy (c\, b) quarkonia and diphoton\n states have s
 ufficiently well understood theoretical properties and sufficiently large 
 cross sections that they can serve as ‘standard candle’ processes with
  which we can benchmark predictions for new physics CEP at the CERN Large 
 Hadron Collider. In this talk I give an overview of the basic theoretical 
 formalism used to describe CEP processes and\, motivated by the broad agre
 ement with theoretical predictions of recent CEP measurements at the Fermi
 lab Tevatron\, discuss and give predictions for heavy quarkonia and diphot
 on exclusive\n production at the Tevatron\, RHIC and LHC. The results conf
 irm the rich phenomenology that these production processes offer at presen
 t and future high-energy colliders.
LOCATION:Seminar Room B\, Rutherford Building\, Cavendish Laboratory
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