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Light Higgs production at the Compton Collider
We have studied the production of a light Higgs boson with a mass of 120 GeV
in photon-photon collisions at a Compton collider. The event generator for the
backgrounds to a Higgs signal due to bbbar and ccbar heavy quark pair
production in polarized gamma-gamma collisions is based on a complete
next-to-leading order (NLO) perturbative QCD calculation. For J_z=0 the large
double-logarithmic corrections up to four loops are also included. It is shown
that the two-photon width of the Higgs boson can be measured with high
statistical accuracy of about 2 % for integrated gamma-gamma luminosity in the
hard part of the spectrum of 40 fb**-1. As a result the total Higgs boson width
can be calculated in a model independent way to an accuracy of about 14 %Comment: submitted to the proceedings of the International Workshop on Linear
Colliders (LCWS99) at Sitges, Spain, 28 April - 5 May 199
Higgs Physics at a \gamma \gamma Collider
High precision measurements of electroweak observables at colliders
indicate the existence of a light Higgs boson below the threshold. If
such a fundamental scalar should be found in the near future it is important to
fully investigate the electroweak symmetry braking sector of the Standard
Model. This is particularly important for an intermediate mass Higgs as its
existence might indicate physics beyond the Standard Model, for instance in
form of its minimal supersymmetric extension (MSSM). In this work we present
first results on the expected precision of the partial width at the option of a future
linear collider. This quantity is sensitive to new physics as heavy particles
do not decouple in general and differences between the SM and MSSM predictions
can differ by up to 10% even in the decoupling limit of large pseudoscalar
Higgs masses. This regime is difficult and for some values of
impossible to cover at the LHC. We find that the well understood background
process allows for a
determination of using conservative
collider parameters.Comment: Contribution to Photon 99 in Freiburg, Germany, and the international
linear collider workshop in Sitges, Spai
Pair production of W bosons at the photon linear collider: a window to the electroweak symmetry breaking?
Recent progress in calculating O(alpha) electroweak corrections to W+W- pair
production in photon-photon collisions is reviewed. The potential of the Photon
Linear Collider to study anomalous W couplings is discussed.Comment: Talk given at 5th International conference on physics Beyond the
Standard Model, Balholm, Norway, April 29 - May 4, 1997, 6 pages, 2
Postscript figures, uses epsf.st
Using Charge Asymmetries to Measure Single Top Quark Production at the LHC
Electroweak production of single top quarks is an as-yet-unverified
prediction of the Standard model, potentially sensitive to new physics. Two of
the single top quark productions channels have significant charge asymmetries
at the LHC, while the much larger background from is nearly
charge-symmetric. This can be used to reduce systematic uncertainties and make
precision measurements of single top quark production.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figur
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