The ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN consists of a central barrel, a muon spectrometer and additional detectors for trigger and event classification purposes. The low transverse momentum threshold of the central barrel give
s ALICE a unique opportunity to study the low mass sector of central exclusive production at the LHC.
Charge exchange reactions at high energies are examined. The existing cross section data on the Reggeon induced reaction pp $rightarrow$ n + $Delta^{++}$ taken at the ZGS and ISR accelerators are extrapolated to the energies of the RHIC and LHC colli
ders. The interest in the charge exchange reaction induced by $W^{pm}$-fusion is presented, and the corresponding QCD-background is examined.
The interest in the study of diffractive meson production is discussed. The description of diffraction within Regge phenomenology is presented, and the QCD-based understanding of diffractive processes is given. Central production is reviewed, and the
corresponding main results from the COMPASS experiment and from the experiments at the ISR, RHIC, TEVATRON and LHC collider are summarised.
