Higgs hadroproduction at large Feynman x

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2008.09.014zbMATH Open1192.81367arXiv0707.4658OpenAlexW2093494863MaRDI QIDQ985797FDOQ985797

Authors: Stanley J. Brodsky, Alfred Scharff Goldhaber, Boris Z. Kopeliovich, Ivan Schmidt 

Publication date: 6 August 2010

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose a novel mechanism for the production of the Higgs boson in inclusive hadronic collisions, which utilizes the presence of heavy quarks in the proton wave function. In these inclusive reactions the Higgs boson acquires the momenta of both the heavy quark and antiquark and thus carries 80% or more of the projectile's momentum. We predict that the cross section $$ for the inclusive production of the Standard Model Higgs coming from intrinsic bottom Fock states is of order 150 fb at LHC energies, peaking in the region of $x_{F}sim0.9$. Our estimates indicate that the corresponding cross section coming from gluon-gluon fusion at $x_F=0.9$ is relatively negligible and therefore the peak from intrinsic bottom should be clearly visible for experiments with forward detection capabilities. The predicted cross section for the production of the Standard Model Higgs coming from intrinsic heavy quark Fock states in the proton is sufficiently large that detection at the Tevatron and the LHC may be possible.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.4658

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zbMATH Keywords

heavy quarksgluon-gluon fusionhadronic collisionsintrinsic bottom Fock statesproton wave function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Feynman diagrams (81T18) Inelastic and multichannel quantum scattering (81U35) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

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