Diffractive Higgs Production from Intrinsic Heavy Flavors in the Proton

Brodsky, Stanley J. ; Kopeliovich, Boris ; Schmidt, Ivan ; Soffer, Jacques

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

关键词: Phenomenology-Hep,Hepph, Hepth;    Protons;    Projectiles;    Production;    Bound State;   

DOI  :  10.2172/878346
RP-ID  :  SLAC-PUB-11784
RP-ID  :  AC02-76SF00515
RP-ID  :  878346

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

We propose a novel mechanism for exclusive diffractive Higgs production pp {yields} 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 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.