"CERN's quest for glueballs - from ISR to LHC"

by Alexander Austregesilo (E18)

Thursday 25 Oct 2012, 09:30 → 11:00 Europe/Berlin

Seminar room 3268 (TUM - Physik Deparment)

During the last 30 years, a series of experiments were carried out at CERN in order to prove the existence of glueballs, i.e. hadrons without valence quark content . After motivating double-pomeron-exchange as a relevant production process, the first part of the talk will briefly review methods and results. In the second part, one recent analysis of COMPASS data will be followed step by step as an illustrative example.