  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. I will report on first analysis results of meson
production in double gap events in minimum-bias proton-proton collisions at
sqrt{s} = 7 TeV, and will describe a dedicated double gap trigger for future
data taking.
