Diffractive Higgs production and related processes

A. D. Martin, A. B. Kaidalov, V. A. Khoze +2

We review the signal, and the $b\bar{b}$ background, for Higgs production by the exclusive double-diffractive process, $pp\to p+H+p$, and its subsequent $H\to b\bar{b}$ decay, at…