`The phenomenology of central exclusive production' 

Abstract: Central exclusive production (CEP) is a hadron-hadron
interaction where a particle (or system of particles) X is produced
while the hadrons remain intact after the collision, scattering at
some small angle from the beam axis. While experimentally it
represents a potentially clean environment in which to observe and
measure the properties of new and Standard Model particles, on the
theory side it provides a novel probe of QCD and diffractive
physics. In this talk I will look at the CEP of systems with
sufficiently low masses that the observation of these processes is
already possible at the Tevatron, RHIC and in LHC low luminosity runs,
as well as discussing the potential to probe Higgs and new physics at
the LHC. I will in particular discuss, in different levels of detail,
the theoretical and phenomenological aspects of light meson pair
(pi+pi-, K+K-, eta(`)eta(`)...), chi_c, diphoton, Higgs, and SUSY
particle production.