https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0641-3
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Survival probability for diffractive Higgs production in high density QCD
Department of Particle Physics, School of Physics and Astronomy, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel
* e-mail: jeremymi@post.tau.ac.il
** e-mail: leving@post.tau.ac.il
Received:
23
November
2006
Revised:
7
January
2008
Published online:
18
June
2008
In this paper, the contribution of hard processes described by BFKL pomeron exchange is taken into account by calculating the first enhanced diagram. The survival probability is estimated, using the ratio of the first enhanced diagram and the single pomeron amplitude, taking into account all essential pomeron loop diagrams in the toy model of Mueller. The triple pomeron vertex is calculated explicitly in the momentum representation. This calculation is used for estimating the survival probability, and it turns out that the survival probability is small, at 0.4%. Hard pomeron rescattering processes contribute substantially to the survival probability.
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