Abstract:
We report measurements of the inclusive reaction,
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in events where either or both the beam-like final-state baryons were
detected in Roman-pot spectrometers and the central system was detected in
the UA2 calorimeter. A Double-Pomeron-Exchange analysis of these data and
single diffractive data from the same experiment demonstrates that, for
central masses of a few GeV, the extracted Pomeron-Pomeron total cross
section exhibits an enhancement which exceeds factorization expectations by
an order-of-magnitude. This may be a signature for glueball production and
provides interesting arguments for a new decisive experiment at RHIC.