arXiv:1109.1444·v2·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology
Linearly Polarized Gluons and the Higgs Transverse Momentum Distribution
Daniel Boer🇳🇱 · Wilco J. den Dunnen🇳🇱 · Cristian Pisano🇮🇹 · Marc Schlegel🇩🇪 · Werner Vogelsang🇩🇪
Abstract
We study how gluons carrying linear polarization inside an unpolarized hadron contribute to the transverse momentum distribution of Higgs bosons produced in hadronic collisions. They modify the distribution produced by unpolarized gluons in a characteristic way that could be used to determine whether the Higgs boson is a scalar or a pseudoscalar particle.
Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, final version, published in PRL