Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2007-09-19
JHEP 0710:090,2007
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
35 pages, 34 figures
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/10/090
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. We find that the SM Higgs will be challenging to observe in the b-jet channel without improvements to the currently proposed experimental configuration, but a neutral scalar MSSM Higgs Boson could be observable in the b-jet channel with a significance of 3 sigma or greater within three years of data taking at all luminosities between 2 x 10^{33} cm^{-2} s^{-1} and 10^{34} cm^{-2} s^{-1}, and at 5 sigma or greater after three years in certain scenarios.
Cox B. E.
Loebinger F. K.
Pilkington A. D.
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