Determining the Higgs spin and parity in the di-photon decay channel using gluon polarization
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2013-10-21 v1
Abstract
Gluons inside an unpolarized proton are in general linearly polarized. This polarization can, in principle, be used to determine the spin and parity of the newly found Higgs-like boson at the LHC. We focus here on the calculation of the degree of polarization.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1310.4965,
title = {Determining the Higgs spin and parity in the di-photon decay channel using gluon polarization},
author = {Wilco J. den Dunnen and Marc Schlegel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.4965},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
7 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the XXI International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects, 22-26 April, 2013, Marseilles, France