creator Zhan, Hengrui advisor Sullivan, Zack The construction of a photon collider has been urged, in order to study the properties of the Higgs boson and electroweak symmetry breaking. It would also provide unique possibilities for measurement of fusion to probe the hadronic structure of the photon. One scheme of design for the photon collider is a linear collider. A study shows that resolved photons contribute about 15% of the cross section to Higgs production with a mass of 120 GeV, but estimates of the resolved photon structure have so far varied greatly. Therefore, resolved photon structure is important to measure. This thesis focuses on the determination of the uncertainties of the cross section of bb production for better understanding of resolved photon structure. The principles of a photon collider are reviewed. In this thesis, the simulation tools for the simulation of the cross section of ! bb collision are developed. After that, the method for determination of the uncertainties of cross section is described. A new set of PDFs to explore these uncertainties is produced. The result of the simulation of the cross section and the calculation for the uncertainties of the cross section is presented and discussed in detailed. Submitted by Erma Thomas (thomase@iit.edu) on 2018-03-23T18:51:34Z No. of bitstreams: 1 etdadmin_upload_520319.zip: 617972 bytes, checksum: 0b4ff330fd599df50fed5f7e2a58e18a (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-23T18:51:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 etdadmin_upload_520319.zip: 617972 bytes, checksum: 0b4ff330fd599df50fed5f7e2a58e18a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-07 M.S. in Physics, July 2017 2017 2017-07 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/4250 en cross section Higgs linear photon collider parton distribution function resolved photon process uncertainties Thesis born digital application/pdf In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Restricted Access PHYS / Physics Illinois Institute of Technology Affiliated department