Speaker
Sven Heinemeyer
(IFCA (CSIC, Santander))
Description
We review the prospects for Central Exclusive Diffractive (CED)
production of BSM Higgs bosons at the LHC using
forward proton detectors installed
at 220 m and 420 m distance around ATLAS and / or CMS.
We update previous analysis for the MSSM taking into account
current improvements in the theoretical calculations and the most
recent exclusion bounds from the Tevatron.
We extend the MSSM analysis to new benchmark scenarios that are in
agreement with the cold dark matter relic abundance and other precision
measurements.
We analyse the exclusive production of Higgs bosons in a model with a
fourth generation of fermions.
Finally, we discuss the determination of Higgs spin-parity and coupling
structures at the LHC and show that the forward proton mode
would provide a critical information on the CP properties
of the Higgs bosons.
Primary author
Sven Heinemeyer
(IFCA (CSIC, Santander))
