Searching for Anomalous Higgs Couplings in Peripheral Heavy Ion
  Collisions at the LHC

A.A. Natale; Alam; Baur; Baur; Baur; Baur; Bertulani; Buchmüller; Burgess; C.G. Roldão; Cahn; de Campos; de Campos; De Rújula; Donoghue; Drees; Eboli; Gonzalez-Garcia; Gonzalez-Garcia; Grabiak; Greiner; Hagiwara; Hagiwara; Hagiwara; Lepage; Leung; Müller; Müller; Papageorgiu; Papageorgiu; Papageorgiu; R. Rosenfeld; S.M. Lietti; Stelzer; Weinberg; Wu; Éboli

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Searching for Anomalous Higgs Couplings in Peripheral Heavy Ion Collisions at the LHC

Authors: A.A. Natale
Alam
Baur
Baur
Baur
Baur
Bertulani
Buchmüller
Burgess
C.G. Roldão
Cahn
de Campos
de Campos
De Rújula
Donoghue
Drees
Eboli
Gonzalez-Garcia
Gonzalez-Garcia
Grabiak
Greiner
Hagiwara
Hagiwara
Hagiwara
Lepage
Leung
Müller
Müller
Papageorgiu
Papageorgiu
Papageorgiu
R. Rosenfeld
S.M. Lietti
Stelzer
Weinberg
Wu
Éboli
Publication date: 1 January 2000
Publisher: 'Elsevier BV'
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Abstract

We investigate the sensitivity of the heavy ion mode of the LHC to anomalous Higgs boson couplings to photons, H-photon-photon, through the analysis of the processes photon photon to b anti-b and photon photon to photon photon in peripheral heavy ion collisions. We suggest cuts to improve the signal over background ratio and determine the capability of LHC to impose bounds on anomalous couplings by searching for a Higgs boson signal in these modes.Comment: 10 pages, RevTeX, 4 figures included using epsfig, revised versio