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High energy photon-photon collisions [electronic resource].

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Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 1994.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
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45 pages : digital, PDF file
Additional Creators:
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, United States. Department of Energy, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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Summary:
The collisions of high energy photons produced at a electron-positron collider provide a comprehensive laboratory for testing QCD, electroweak interactions and extensions of the standard model. The luminosity and energy of the colliding photons produced by back-scattering laser beams is expected to be comparable to that of the primary e⁺e{sup −} collisions. In this overview, we shall focus on tests of electroweak theory in photon-photon annihilation, particularly γγ → W⁺W{sup −}, γγ → Higgs bosons, and higher-order loop processes, such as γγ → γγ, Zγ and ZZ. Since each photon can be resolved into a W⁺W⁻ pair, high energy photon-photon collisions can also provide a remarkably background-free laboratory for studying WW collisions and annihilation. We also review high energy γγ tests of quantum chromodynamics, such as the scaling of the photon structure function, t{bar t} production, mini-jet processes, and diffractive reactions.
Report Numbers:
E 1.99:slac-pub--6571
E 1.99: conf-940351--1
conf-940351--1
slac-pub--6571
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Published through SciTech Connect.
07/01/1994.
"slac-pub--6571"
" conf-940351--1"
"DE94017494"
Workshop on gamma-gamma colliders,Berkeley, CA (United States),28-31 Mar 1994.
Brodsky, S.J.; Zerwas, P.M.
Funding Information:
AC03-76SF00515
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