Diffractive Higgs production by AdS Pomeron fusion

The double diffractive Higgs production at central rapidity is formulated in terms of the fusion of two AdS gravitons/Pomerons first introduced by Brower, Polchinski, Strassler and Tan in elastic scattering. Here we propose a simple self-consistent holographic framework intended to provide new phenomenologically compelling estimates of diffractive cross sections at the LHC. As a first step, we evaluate the lowest order two Pomeron fusion diagram, fixing the overall normalization. The important suppression factor due to multiple Pomeron exchange (the survival probability) is presented in the eikonal approximation but its evaluation is left to future phenomenological analysis.