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One option at the International Linear Collider is to convert the electron beams into high energy photon beams by Compton scattering a few millimetres in front of the interaction region. Selected physics channels for this option have been analysed and technical issues have been studied. So far no showstoppers for this option have been found.
This study investigates the potential of a photon collider for measuring the two photon partial width times the branching ratio of a light Higgs boson. The analysis is based on the reconstruction of the Higgs events produced in the gamma gamma -> h process, followed by Higgs decay into a b bbar pair. A statistical error of the measurement of the two-photon width times the b bbar branching ratio of the Higgs boson is found to be 1.7% with an integrated luminosity of 80 fb^-1 in the high energy part of the spectrum.
A search is performed for a Higgs boson, decaying into two photons, using the L3 data collected at centre of mass energies between $\sqrt s$ = 189 and 202 GeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 400 pb$^{-1}$. The processes $e^{+}e^{-}\to {Zh} \to {q} \bar{q} γγ$, $e^{+}e^{-}\to {Zh} \to ν\barν γγ$, $e^{+}e^{-}\to {Zh} \to {l}^{+} {l}^{-} γγ$ are considered. The observed data are found to be consistent with the expected background from standard physics processes. Limits on the branching fraction of the Higgs boson decay into two photons as a function of the Higgs mass are shown and a lower mass limit on a fermiophobic Higgs is derived.