Diffractive Higgs production: Soft Colour Interactions perspective

Abstract

We briefly present the soft colour interaction models which are successful in reproducing a multitude of diffractive hard scattering data, and give predictions for diffractive Higgs production at the Tevatron and LHC. Only a few diffractive Higgs events may be produced at the Tevatron, but we predict a substantial rate at the LHC.

5 pages, 3 figures, uses appolb.cls. Presented at the X International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS2002), Cracow, 30 April - 4 May 2002