Double diffractive meson production and the BFKL pomeron at e/sup +/ e/sup -/ colliders

Abstract

In this paper we study the double diffractive vector meson production in e+ e- collisions assuming the dominance of the BFKL pomeron exchange. We consider the nonforward solution of the BFKL equation at high energy and large momentum transfer and estimate the total cross section for the process e+e-→ e+e- V1V2 with antitagged e+ and e- , where V1 and V2 can be any two vector mesons (Vi=p, ω, ø J/ψ, γ). The event rates for the future linear colliders are given.