Photon-Photon and Electron-Photon Colliders with Energies Below a TeV

Abstract

We investigate the potential for detecting and studying Higgs bosons in $\gamma \gamma$ and $e\gamma$ collisions at future linear colliders with energies below a TeV. Our study incorporates realistic $\gamma \gamma$ spectra based on available laser technology, and NLC and CLIC acceleration techniques. Results include detector simulations. We study the cases of: a) a SM-like Higgs boson based on a devoted low energy machine with $\sqrt{s_{ee}}\le 200$ GeV; b) the heavy MSSM Higgs bosons; and c) charged Higgs bosons in $e\gamma$ collisions.

29 pages, 13 figures, contributed to Snowmass 2001