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Measurement of the W+W production cross section in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS experiments

  • The ATLAS collaboration
  • Mohamed I University
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • University of Oklahoma
  • University of Texas at Arlington
  • Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  • IN2P3/CNRS
  • University of Amsterdam
  • University of California at Santa Cruz
  • University of Sussex
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  • University of Oregon
  • Stockholm University
  • Oskar Klein Centre
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • King's College London
  • The University of Tokyo
  • AGH University of Krakow
  • United States Department of Energy
  • Northern Illinois University
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of Liverpool
  • University of Belgrade
  • Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
  • University of Granada
  • Boston University
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • Lund University
  • P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • University of Bologna
  • University of Victoria BC
  • Université Grenoble Alpes
  • Universidad Nacional de La Plata
  • CERN
  • Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
  • National Technical University of Athens
  • Czech Technical University in Prague
  • University of Salento
  • The University of Chicago

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Abstract

The production of opposite-charge W-boson pairs in proton–proton collisions at s=13 TeV is measured using data corresponding to 3.16 fb−1 of integrated luminosity collected by the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in 2015. Candidate W-boson pairs are selected by identifying their leptonic decays into an electron, a muon and neutrinos. Events with reconstructed jets are not included in the candidate event sample. The cross-section measurement is performed in a fiducial phase space close to the experimental acceptance and is compared to theoretical predictions. Agreement is found between the measurement and the most accurate calculations available.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)354-374
Number of pages21
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume773
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 10 2017

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