Central exclusive quark-antiquark dijet and Standard Model Higgs boson production in proton-(anti)proton collisions

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We consider the central exclusive production of $q\bar{q}$ pairs and Higgs boson at proton-proton collisions at LHC.

• The amplitude for the process is derived within the $k_{\perp}$-factorization approach and considered in different kinematical asymptotics, in particular, in the important high quark transverse momenta and massless quark limits.
• Quark helicity and spin-projection amplitudes in two different frames are shown in extenso.
• Rapidity distributions, quark jet $p_{\perp}$ distributions, invariant $q\bar{q}$ mass distributions, angular azimuthal correlations between outgoing protons and jets are presented.