Central Exclusive Production at the LHC

The idea to install detectors far from the interaction point at CMS and/or ATLAS with the capacity to detect protons scattered through small angles has gained a great deal of attention in recent years and the report presented in [1] constitutes a significant milestone on the road to CEP physics at the LHC. In this talk, I should like to focus attention in particular on Higgs boson production, as illustrated in Fig. 1. For a much more extensive survey of the physics that can be studied after installing forward detectors see [1]. Detection of both protons by detectors located