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Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 1522 - 1525 (1990)

B factory via conversion of 1-TeV electron beams into 1-TeV photon beams
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Sekazi K. Mtingwa
High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439
Leningrad Nuclear Physics Institute, 188350, U.S.S.R.
Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan 375036, Armenia, U.S.S.R

Mark Strikman
Leningrad Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Leningrad District 188350, U.S.S.R

Received 30 November 1989

We derive formulas which describe the interaction of laser beams with electron beams. Specializing to the case of 1-TeV electron beams from the future generation of electron linear accelerators, we calculate the production rate of backscattered 1-TeV photons, and using these photons, we show that it is possible to organize the photoproduction of beauty particles so as to measure 109 bb¯ pairs per year. This should be adequate to study rare decays and CP violation in B meson decay.


©1990 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v64/p1522
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.64.1522
PACS: 41.80.Ee, 11.80.-m, 13.60.Le, 29.25.-t

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