2007

Detecting Higgs bosons in the bb decay channel using forward proton tagging at the LHC

Cox, B. E., Loebinger, F. K., Pilkington, A. D.

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A detailed study is presented of the search for Higgs bosons in the b-decay channel in the central exclusive production process at the LHC.

  • We present results for proton tagging detectors at both 220m and 420m around ATLAS or CMS.
  • We consider two benchmark scenarios; a Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson and the m_h^{max} scenario of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM).
  • Detector acceptance, smearing and event trigger strategies are considered.

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