New Physics with Tagged Forward Protons at the LHC 1
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The addition of forward proton detectors to LHC experiments will significantly enlarge the potential for studying New Physics. A topical example is Higgs production by the central exclusive diffractive process, pp → p+H + p. We discuss the exclusive production of Higgs bosons in both the SM and MSSM. Special attention is paid to the backgrounds to the H → bb̄ signal. 1 Presented by V.A. Khoze at the 21st Workshop Les Rencontres de Physique de la Vallée d’Aoste, La Thuile, Aosta Valley, 4-10 March, 2007.
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