Central Exclusive Production of BSM Higgs bosons at the LHC

Abstract

The prospects for central exclusive diffractive (CED) production of MSSM Higgs bosons at the LHC are reviewed. These processes can provide important information on the $\text{cp}$-even Higgs bosons, allowing to probe interesting regions of the $\text{MA}$--$\text{tb}$ parameter plane. The sensitivity of the searches in the forward proton mode for the Higgs bosons in the so-called CDM-benchmark scenarios and the effects of fourth-generation models on the CED Higgs production are briefly discussed.

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures, conference proceedings