2001/11/30 by V. A. Khoze, A. D. Martin, M. G. Ryskin · 14 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Boson #Bremsstrahlung #Collider #Higgs boson #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Large Hadron Collider #Luminosity #Nuclear physics #Particle Detector Development and Performance #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Production (economics) #Quantum chromodynamics #Rapidity #Tevatron #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s100520100884
published as Eur.Phys.J.C23:311-327,2002 · 31 pages, 14 figures, Latex. The WW -luminosities in Figs 3,4 and 7 have been corrected (that is typically a 20% increase) and some typographical errors in the text and formulae removed
arxiv created 2002/02/25 · openalex publication_date 2002/03/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We study the double-diffractive production of various heavy systems (e.g. Higgs, dijet, t tbar and SUSY particles) at LHC and Tevatron collider energies. In each case we compute the probability that the rapidity gaps, which occur on either side of the produced system, survive the effects of soft rescattering and QCD bremsstrahlung effects. We calculate both the luminosity for different production mechanisms, and a wide variety of subprocess cross sections. The results allow numerical predictions to be readily made for the cross sections of all these processes at the LHC and the Tevatron collider. For example, we predict that the cross section for the exclusive double-diffractive production of a 120 GeV Higgs boson at the LHC is about 3 fb, and that the QCD background in the b bbar decay mode is about 4 times smaller than the Higgs signal if the experimental missing-mass resolution is 1 GeV. For completeness we also discuss production via gamma gamma or WW fusion.