出版社:SISSA, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
摘要:A new physics program to study the dynamics and particle production in polarized diffractive p+ p collisions at p s = 200 - 500 GeV has been initiated with the STAR detector at RHIC. Staged implementation of multiple Roman Pot stations for tagging the forward protons in the diffractive processes will enable, in particular, a search for the centrally produced gluon bound state (glueball) via double Pomeron exchange inelastic diffractive processes. The properties of the Pomeron and the existence of theoretically expectedC-odd counterpart of the Pomeron (Odderon) are also explored with spin-dependent elastic scattering in a wide t-range with polarized p+ p collisions.