  We present a study of the central exclusive production (CEP) of meson pairs,
MMbar, at sufficiently high invariant mass that a perturbative QCD formalism is
applicable. Within this framework, MMbar production proceeds via the gg -->
MMbar hard scattering sub-process, which can be calculated within the hard
exclusive formalism. We present explicit calculations for the gg --> MMbar
helicity amplitudes for different meson states and, using these, show results
for meson pair CEP in the perturbative regime.
