https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s2005-02359-9
Theoretical Physics
Diffractive W + 2 jet production: a backgroundto exclusive 
production at hadron colliders
1
Department of Physics and Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, University of Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
2
Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, 188300, St. Petersburg, Russia
3
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
* e-mail: v.a.khoze@durham.ac.uk
Central exclusive double-diffractive Higgs-boson production, 
, is now recognised as an important search scenario for the LHC. We consider the case when the Higgs boson decays to two W bosons, one of which may be off-mass-shell, that subsequently decay to the 
final state. An important background to this is from the QCD process 
, where the two gluons are required to be in a J
z
= 0, colour-singlet state. We perform an explicit calculation and investigate the salient properties of this potentially important background process.
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