  The ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN consists of a
central barrel, a muon spectrometer and of additional detectors for trigger and
event classification purposes. The low transverse momentum threshold of the
central barrel gives ALICE a unique opportunity to study the low mass sector of
central production at the LHC. First analysis results of meson production in
double gap events in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV and in PbPb
collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 2.76 TeV are presented.
