Journal article

Publication year: 1991

Pages: L45-L52

Journal: Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics

Volume number: 17

Issue number: 4

ISSN: 0954-3899

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1088/0954-3899/17/4/002

Publisher: IOP Publishing

Abstract: 
The production of intermediate-mass Higgs bosons in strong electromagnetic fields prevailing in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions is studied. To exclude the contribution of central collisions to the production cross section we develop an impact parameter dependent equivalent photon method starting from the gamma-gamma --> H vertex for a scalar boson as well as for a pseudoscalar boson. For an assumed scalar Higgs mass of m(H) = 100 GeV we obtained a reduced cross section sigma-H = 57 pb for a Pb-Pb collision at LHC energies with gamma = 3500 and sigma-H = 450 pb at SSC energies with gamma = 8000, which are by a factor of 2.1 and 1.5 smaller than the corresponding original Weizsacker-Williams cross sections.

Harvard Citation style: GREINER, M., VIDOVIC, M., RAU, J. and SOFF, G. (1991) IMPACT PARAMETER DEPENDENCE OF THE HIGGS BOSON PRODUCTION IN ULTRARELATIVISTIC HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS, Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 17(4), pp. L45-L52. https://doi.org/10.1088/0954-3899/17/4/002

APA Citation style: GREINER, M., VIDOVIC, M., RAU, J., & SOFF, G. (1991). IMPACT PARAMETER DEPENDENCE OF THE HIGGS BOSON PRODUCTION IN ULTRARELATIVISTIC HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics. 17(4), L45-L52. https://doi.org/10.1088/0954-3899/17/4/002