Diffractive Production of the Higgs Boson

Abstract

Diffractive production of the Higgs boson at hadron colliders is discussed in the light of the observed rate of hard diffractive dijet events at the Tevatron. The Higgs predictions of models successful for dijets are compared. LHC seems promising for a diffractive light Higgs boson and its mass determination. Hard diffractive dijets, diphotons and dileptons at the Tevatron (Run II) will be necessary to remove the remaining large uncertainties on cross-sections and signals.Comment: 4 pages,3 figures,1 table; Talk presented at the XXXVIIIth Rencontres de Moriond, QCD and High Energy Hadronic Interactions, Les Arcs, France, March 22-29 200