Probing the Heavy Quark Content of the Photon Using b Tagging at Electron Photon Colliders
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2019-08-15 v1
Abstract
We study the prospects for probing the quark content of the photon using b tagging at high energy electron-photon colliders. We find that heavy quark tagging provides a sensitive and effective probe of the quark content of the photon. Using a 500 GeV \ NLC in electron-photon mode, the cross section for \ can be measured to 10\% with b tagging. This is sufficient to differentiate between the various photon structure functions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9407345,
title = {Probing the Heavy Quark Content of the Photon Using b Tagging at Electron Photon Colliders},
author = {K. Andrew Peterson and M. A. Doncheski and Stephen Godfrey},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9407345},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
6 LaTex pages + 3 postscript figures (uuencoded and incorporated with epsfig), postscript version available via anonymous ftp from ftp.physics.carleton.ca in pub/theory/peterson/ocipc9406.ps, Proceedings of MRST-94, OCIP/C 94-6