Single Spin Asymmetry in Heavy Quark Photoproduction (and Decay) as a Test of pQCD

Abstract

We review the properties of the single spin asymmetry (SSA) in heavy quark production by linearly polarized photons and analyze the possibility to measure this SSA in the planned E160/E161 experiments at SLAC.

Comments: 8 pages, 3 figures. Talk given at the NATO Advanced Spin Physics Workshop, Yerevan, June 30- July 3, 2002. To appear in the Proceedings