Exclusive Production of Higgs Bosons in Hadron Colliders

Abstract

We study the exclusive, double--diffractive production of the Standard Model Higgs particle in hadronic collisions at LHC and FNAL (upgraded) energies. Such a mechanism would provide an exceptionally clean signal for experimental detection in which the usual penalty for triggering on the rare decays of the Higgs could be avoided. In addition, because of the color singlet nature of the hard interaction, factorization is expected to be preserved, allowing the cross--section to be related to similar hard--diffractive events at HERA. Starting from a Fock state expansion in perturbative QCD, we obtain an estimate for the cross section in terms of the gluon structure functions squared of the colliding hadrons. Unfortunately, our estimates yield a production rate well below what is likely to be experimentally feasible.

17 pages, RevTeX file, four uufiled PostScript figures. UMPP #94-177. (Revised version. Some mistakenly missing Feynman diagrams are now added. Results do not change qualitatively. Paper reorganized.)

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