Single and Central Diffractive Higgs Production at the LHC

Journal Article · Fri Jul 15 00:00:00 EDT 2011 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3601391· OSTI ID:21608210

Ducati, M B. Gay; Machado, M M; Silveira, G G ^[1]

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1. High Energy Physics Phenomenology Group, GFPAE, IF-UFRGS, Caixa Postal 15051, CEP 91501-970, Porto Alegre, RS (Brazil)

The single and central diffractive production of the Standard Model Higgs boson is computed using the diffractive factorization formalism, taking into account a parametrization for the Pomeron structure function provided by the H1 Collaboration. We compute the cross sections at NLO accuracy for the gluon fusion process, since it is the leading mechanism for the Higgs boson production. The gap survival probability is also introduced to include the rescattering corrections due to spectator particles present in the interaction. The diffractive ratios are predicted for proton-proton collisions at the LHC, since the beam luminosity is favorable to the Higgs boson detection. These results provide updated estimations for the fraction of single and central diffractive events in the LHC kinematical regime.

• OSTI ID: 21608210
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1350, Issue 1; Conference: DIFFRACTION 2010: International workshop on diffraction in high energy physics, Otranto (Italy), 10-15 Sep 2010; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3601391; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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