Radion and Higgs Signals in Peripheral Heavy Ion Collisions at the LHC

Abstract

We investigate the sensitivity of the heavy ion mode of the LHC to Higgs boson and Radion production via photon-photon fusion through the analysis of the processes photon to photon photon, photon photon to b anti-b, and photon photon to g g in peripheral heavy ion collisions. We suggest cuts to improve the Higgs and Radion signal over standard model background ratio and determine the capability of LHC to detect these particles production.

Comments: 16 pages, 8 eps figures. admin note: text overlap with arXiv:hep-ph/0009232 by different author