Diffractive higgs boson photoproduction in peripheral collisions

Abstract

An alternative process is proposed for the diffractive Higgs boson production inspired in the Durham model, exploring it through the photon-proton interaction. In this sense, we estimate the production cross section of the Higgs boson, comparing some sets of parton distributions in the proton and confronting this results with those from other processes.

Higgs boson; Diffractive process; Double Pomeron Exchange; Peripheral Collisions