Double diffractive meson production and the BFKL Pomeron at $e^+e^-$ colliders
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In this Letter we study the double diffractive vector meson production in $e^+e^-$ collisions assuming the dominance of the BFKL pomeron exchange. We consider the non-forward solution of the BFKL equation at high energy and large momentum transfer and estimate the total cross section for the process $e^+e^- \to e^+e^- V_1 V_2$ with antitagged $e^+$ and $e^-$, where $V_1$ and $V_2$ can be any two vector mesons ($V_i = ρ, ω, ϕ, J/Ψ, Υ$). The event rates for the future linear colliders are given.
8 pages, 1 figure, Version to be published in Physical Review D
8 pages, 1 figure, Version to be published in Physical Review D