Diffractive Higgs production from intrinsic heavy flavors in the proton

2006/03/31 by Stanley J. Brodsky, Boris Kopeliovich, Iván Schmidt +2 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.73.113005

published as Phys.Rev.D73:113005,2006 · 30 pages, 5 figures

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Abstract

We propose a novel mechanism for exclusive diffractive Higgs production pp\ensuremath→pHp in which the Higgs boson carries a significant fraction of the projectile proton momentum. This mechanism will provide a clear experimental signal for Higgs production due to the small background in this kinematic region. The key assumption underlying our analysis is the presence of intrinsic heavy flavor components of the proton bound state, whose existence at the high light-cone momentum fraction x has growing experimental and theoretical support. We also discuss the implications of this picture for exclusive diffractive quarkonium and other channels.

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