Central Exclusive Particle Production at High Energy Hadron Colliders

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We review the subject of central exclusive particle production at high energy hadron colliders.

• In particular we consider reactions of the type A + B -> A + X + B, where X is a fully specified system of particles that is well separated in rapidity from the outgoing beam particles.
• We focus on the case where the colliding particles are strongly interacting and mainly they will be protons (or antiprotons) as at the ISR, SppS, Tevatron and LHC.
• The data are surveyed and placed within the context of theoretical developments.