Diffractive Higgs production from intrinsic heavy flavors in the proton

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Brodsky, Stanley J. [1 ]
Kopeliovich, Boris
Schmidt, Ivan
Soffer, Jacques
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[1] Stanford Univ, Stanford Linear Accelerator Ctr, Stanford, CA 94309 USA
[2] Univ Tecn Federico Santo Maria, Dept Fis, Valparaiso, Chile
[3] CNRS, UMR 6207, Ctr Phys Theor, F-13288 Marseille 9, France
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PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2006年 / 73卷 / 11期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.73.113005
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P1 [天文学];
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We propose a novel mechanism for exclusive diffractive Higgs production pp -> 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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