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Diffractive gamma-gamma production at hadron colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-09-13 v1

Abstract

We compute the cross section for exclusive double-diffractive gamma-gamma production at the Tevatron, ppˉp+γγ+pˉp{\bar p} \to p + \gamma\gamma + {\bar p}, and the LHC. We evaluate both the gluon-gluon and quark-antiquark t-channel exchange contributions to the process. The observation of exclusive gamma-gamma production at the Tevatron will provide a check on the model predictions, and offer an opportunity to confirm the expectations for exclusive double-diffractive Higgs production at the LHC.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0409037,
  title  = {Diffractive gamma-gamma production at hadron colliders},
  author = {V. A. Khoze and A. D. Martin and M. G. Ryskin and W. J. Stirling},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0409037},
  year   = {2011}
}

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16 pages, 7 figures