Central Exclusive Production of BSM Higgs bosons at the LHC

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The prospects for central exclusive diffractive (CED) production of MSSM Higgs bosons at the LHC are reviewed.

• These processes can provide important information on the $\cp$-even Higgs bosons, allowing to probe interesting regions of the $\MA$--$\tb$ parameter plane.
• The sensitivity of the searches in the forward proton mode for the Higgs bosons in the so-called CDM-benchmark scenarios and the effects of fourth-generation models on the CED Higgs production are briefly discussed.