Di-photon production at the LHC

dc.creatorBern, Zvi
dc.creatorDixon, Lance
dc.creatorSchmidt, Carl
dc.date2003-06-16
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T03:49:49Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T03:49:49Z
dc.descriptionThe standard model production of two photons is one of the most important backgrounds to light Higgs boson production at the LHC. In this talk we discuss the di-photon background, with emphasis on the effects of the recently calculated next-to-leading-order (NLO) corrections to the gluon-gluon-initiated component. We find that the $K$-factor for this component is smaller than that for the analogous $gg\to H$ process, and that the correction to the total irreducible di-photon production is modest. We also investigate ways to enhance the statistical significance of the Higgs signal in the $γγ$ channel.
dc.description4 pages, talk given at XXXVIIIth Rencontres de Moriond, QCD and High Energy Hadronic Interactions, Les Arcs, France, March 22-29, 2003
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0306130
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0306130
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/42560
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleDi-photon production at the LHC
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