Suppression of Heavy Ion gamma gamma Production of the Higgs by Coulomb Dissociation

Abstract

Predicted two-photon Higgs production with heavy ions at LHC is shown to be reduced due to the large Coulomb dissociation cross section. Incorporating the effect of dissociation reduces the production of a 100 GeV Higgs by about a factor of three compared to rates in the literature calculated without this effect.

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