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Diffractive Higgs production

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

Instrumenting the LHC to measure the outgoing protons in the process pp -> p+X+p opens up new possibilities for physics studies in the Standard Model and beyond. In this talk I first present an overview of the underlying QCD calculation and its uncertainties. I then move on to present a variety of new physics scenarios which one would want to explore via this unique channel. There is a short discussion of the recent CDF data which may provide evidence for the existence of central exclusive jet production at the Tevatron.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0611274,
  title  = {Diffractive Higgs production},
  author = {Jeffrey R. Forshaw},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0611274},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

8 pages. Talk presented at "Diffraction 2006"