2003/04/10 by Peter Williams, P. H. Williams, Williams, P. H.
Physics and Astronomy · #Economics #FOS: Physical sciences #Fusion #Higgs boson #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Large Hadron Collider #Nuclear physics #Particle Detector Development and Performance #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Philosophy #Physics #Production (economics) #Rapidity #Vector boson #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0304098
4 pages, 7 figures. Presented at 38th Rencontres de Moriond on QCD and Hadronic Interactions, Les Arcs, France, 22-29 Mar 2003
arxiv created 2003/04/10 · openalex publication_date 2003/04/10 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We study central Z-boson production accompanied by rapidity gaps on either side as a way to gauge Higgs weak boson fusion production at the LHC. We analyse the backgrounds for the bb-decay mode and show that these can be substantially reduced. Special attention is paid to the evaluation of the gap survival factor, which is the major source of theoretical uncertainty in the rate of H and Z central production events with rapidity gaps.