Insight into Double-Pomeron-Exchange Higgs production and backgrounds

Abstract

We quantify the central inclusive background contributions to exclusive Higgs production at the LHC arising from double-Pomeron-exchange processes. We consider the H --> bb(bar) signal. We study processes mediated by the fusion of two `hard' Pomerons, and also by the fusion of `soft' Pomerons. The latter background is found to be very small, and the former is found to be less than the exclusive signal.

arXiv comment10 pages, 2 figures, 1 table

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