arXiv:hep-ph/9705220·v1·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology
Suppression of Heavy Ion gamma gamma Production of the Higgs by Coulomb Dissociation
A. J. Baltz (BNL)🇺🇸 · Mark Strikman (Penn. State U.)🇺🇸
Abstract
Predicted two-photon Higgs production with heavy ions at LHC is shown to be reduced due to the large Coulomb dissociation cross section. Incorporating the effect of dissociation reduces the production of a 100 GeV Higgs by about a factor of three compared to rates in the literature calculated without this effect.
Comments: 5 pages, latex, revtex source, two postscript figures