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Probing the Heavy Quark Content of the Photon Using b Tagging at Electron Photon Colliders

K. Andrew Peterson, M. A. Doncheski, Stephen Godfrey

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9407345

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 e+e-\ NLC in electron-photon mode, the cross section for ebγ→ eb\ can be measured to 10\% with b tagging. This is sufficient to differentiate between the various photon structure functions.

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