Production of Higgs bosons in central ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions

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Abstract
The incoherent production of minimal and non-minimal, intermediate-mass Higgs bosons in central ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions is considered. In comparison to pp colliders, the increased number of nucleon-nucleon collisions prevailing in the heavy-ion collision raises the production cross sections by more than three orders of magnitude to about 10-100 nb for the standard-model Higgs boson, depending on its mass and on the collider energy at the LHC and SSC. For specific parameters the production cross sections for the Higgs bosons of the minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model are even larger by one to three orders of magnitude.