Abstract. We consider the general theoretical framework to study exclusive double diffractive events (EDDE). It is a powerful tool to explore the picture of the pp interaction. Basic kinematical and dynamical properties of the process, and also normalization of parameters via standard processes like the exclusive vector meson production (EVMP), are considered in detail. As an example, calculations of the cross-sections in the model with three pomerons for the process p + p → p + M + p are presented for Tevatron and LHC energies.
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ItroductionImpressive progress of the LHC experiments stimulates new investigations in different areas of high energy physics. Latest weighty arguments in favor of the existence of the Higgs boson give us the basis for futher experiments, since we have to define exactly the nature of this particle. It is a problem of today to have a clear instrument to determine its quantum numbers and couplings to other particles. Besides this task concerning Higgs boson, we have to continue to study other fundamental objects of high energy physics like jets and particles produced in different processes.If we consider huge number of high energy processes which have been studied for a long time, we will find the one which can serve as a clear source of information about high-energy dynamics. It is the exclusive double diffractive event (EDDE), i.e. the process of the type h + h → h * + M + h * , where h → h * scattering is quasidiffractive, M is the centrally produced particle or system of particles and "+" means large rapidity gap (LRG). If one takes M as a single particle produced, this is the first "genuinely" inelastic process which not only retains a lot of features of elastic scattering (diffractive patterns), but also shows clearly how the initial energy is being transformed into the secondary particles. General properties of such amplitudes were considered in Ref. Experimental study has begun since 1970's [31]. As Pomerons are the driving force of the processes in question at high energies it is naturally to expect that glueball production will be favorable, if one believes that Pomerons are mostly gluonic objects. Central glueball production was suggested as possible origin of the total cross section rise in Ref. [3]. One of the early proposal for experimental investigations of centrally produced glueballs in EDDE was made in [32]. As to the most recent experimental studies one has to mention the series of results from the expe-