Peaks in the valley: Searching for resonances in large angle exclusive scattering

The problem we pose for this talk is how to find high mass, relatively broad width, low spin resonances in the midst of very large diffractive backgrounds in hadronic interactions. One possible answer is to study large angle exclusive scattering where the forward diffraction has gone away and the background is small. Moreover, this background may be partially understood in the context of perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (pQCD). In this talk, we describe results from AGS Experiment 834.  (AIP)