1. 1  V.A. Khoze ( IPPP, Durham ) (In collaboration with L. Harland-Lang, M.Ryskin and W.J. Stirling) Standard Candles for Central Exclusive Processes at the Tevaron and LHC QCD and High Energy Interactions La Thuile, March 13-20, 2010

2. (based on Eur.Phys.J.C65:433-448,2010)

3. (star reactions!)

4. ‘ Better to light a candle than to rant against darkness’ ( C onfucius ) Standard Candle Processes Standard Candle Processes

5. 5 (Currently no complete theoretical description of onium properties.) (BABAR (2008) ( Still puzzles ) (spins- still unconfirmed) The heaviest and most compact quark-antiquark bound state in nature

6. Our 3 measurements are all in good agreement (factor “few”) with the Durham group predictions. * * * Prpospects ! FSC@LHC (more coming soon )

7. d A killing blow to the wide range of theoretical models. Visualization of QCD Sudakov formfactor CDF PRD-2008 CDF

8.  /KK mode as a spin-parity analyzer

9. Khoze, Martin and Ryskin, Eur.Phys.J. C23: 311 (2002) ; KMR+Stirling hep-ph/0409037 36 fb Claim factor ~ 3 uncertainty ; Correlated to p+H+p H 3 candidates, 2 golden, 1 ? ? New data, Lower threshold, possible “observation” to come & SuperCHIC ! (HKRS-09) 36 fb  0.8 events

10. Too good to be true ?! Phys.Rev.Lett.102:242001,2009

11. (A. Alekseev-1958-positronium) (R.Pasechnik et al, Phys.Lett.B680:62-71,2009; HKRS, Eur.Phys.J.C65:433-448,2010 ) KMR-01

12. Important role of absorption effects

21. Currently active studies are in progress (both in theory and experiment).

22.  Thank You

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