Linearly polarized Gluons and the Higgs Transverse Momentum Distribution
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2012-06-11 v2
Abstract
We investigate the possible role of linearly polarized gluons in Higgs production from unpolarized pp collisions. The transverse momentum distribution of the produced Higgs boson is found to exhibit a modulation with respect to the naive, unpolarized expectation, with the sign depending on the parity of the Higgs boson. The transverse momentum distribution of a scalar Higgs will, therefore, have a shape clearly different from a pseudoscalar Higgs. We suggest that this effect can be used to determine the parity of the Higgs at the LHC, without the need to use challenging angular distributions.
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@article{arxiv.1205.6931,
title = {Linearly polarized Gluons and the Higgs Transverse Momentum Distribution},
author = {Wilco J. den Dunnen and Daniel Boer and Cristian Pisano and Marc Schlegel and Werner Vogelsang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.6931},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
DIS2012 conference proceedings contribution. Corrected typos in Eq. (7)