On the role of hard rescattering in exclusive diffractive Higgs production

Abstract

We discuss the contribution of so-called semi-enhanced hard rescattering corrections to central exclusive diffractive Higgs production, pp -> p+H+p, at the LHC. We present arguments to show that these corrections are small. We confirm these expectations by considering HERA data for leading neutron production.

arXiv comment12 pages, 2 figures 2 references added, typo corrected, version to be published in JHEP

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