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roman pasechnik

Roman Pasechnik

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roman pasechnik

Exclusive bb̄ pair production and irreducible background to the exclusive Higgs boson production

Author

  • Rafal MacIuła
  • Roman Pasechnik
  • Antoni Szczurek

Summary, in English

We calculated the cross section for the exclusive double-diffractive bb̄ production in pp→p(bb̄)p reaction at LHC. Large cross sections are obtained (3-10nb). This process constitutes the irreducible background to the exclusive Higgs production and is of particular importance in the upcoming Higgs boson searches. The distribution in invariant mass of the bb̄ pair is calculated and compared with the corresponding contribution from the Higgs decay. The contribution from the exclusive production of Z0 and its decay as well as the contribution from the γγ→bb̄ subprocess are also presented for the first time. The influence of cuts on the signal-to-background ratio is discussed.

Publishing year

2010-12-10

Language

English

Publication/Series

Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology)

Volume

82

Issue

11

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

American Physical Society

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1550-7998