Higgs boson production in e$\gamma$ collisions

A large number of W bosons can be produced in high energy e+e− linear colliders through the subprocess $γ + e → W + v$, with the photons generated by back-scattering of laser light. We have explored to which extent this process can be exploited to produce Higgs bosons through emission from the W line: $γ + e → W + H + v$. For very high energies, photoproduction of Higgs bosons on a W-boson target, γ + W → W + H, is the dominant fundamental subprocess