2012/05/31 by Wilco J. den Dunnen, Daniël Boer, Dunnen, Wilco J. den +8 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #Geometry #Gluon #Higgs boson #Higgs field #Higgs mechanism #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Large Hadron Collider #Nuclear physics #Parity (physics) #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Pseudoscalar #Quark #Scalar (mathematics) #Transverse plane #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1205.6931
DIS2012 conference proceedings contribution. Corrected typos in Eq. (7)
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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.