Diffractive Higgs Production by AdS Pomeron Fusion

TL;DR

This paper develops a holographic model based on AdS Pomeron fusion to estimate double diffractive Higgs production cross sections at the LHC, linking it to other diffractive processes.

Contribution

It introduces a self-consistent holographic framework for calculating diffractive cross sections, extending the AdS Pomeron approach to Higgs production at high energies.

Findings

Provides phenomenological estimates of Higgs diffractive cross sections at the LHC.

Establishes a framework for calibrating model parameters using various diffractive processes.

Connects Higgs production with other diffractive phenomena through factorization.

Abstract

The double diffractive Higgs production at central rapidity is formulated in terms of the fusion of two AdS gravitons/Pomerons first introduced by Brower, Polchinski, Strassler and Tan in elastic scattering. Here we propose a simple self-consistent holographic framework capable of providing phenomenologically compelling estimates of diffractive cross sections at the LHC. As in the traditional weak coupling approach, we anticipate that several phenomenological parameters must be tested and calibrated through factorization for a self-consistent description of other diffractive process such as total cross sections, deep inelastic scattering and heavy quark production in the central region.