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Observation of WWW Production in pp Collisions at s =13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector

  • The ATLAS collaboration
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • University of Oklahoma
  • University of Massachusetts
  • CERN
  • University of Göttingen
  • Royal Holloway University of London
  • United States Department of Energy
  • Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • King's College London
  • Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • Université Savoie Mont Blanc
  • AGH University of Krakow
  • University of Toronto
  • Brandeis University
  • Northern Illinois University
  • Istanbul University
  • University of Geneva
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of California at Santa Cruz
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • Institute for High Energy Physics
  • University of Pavia
  • Radboud University Nijmegen
  • Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi
  • Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
  • University of Granada
  • Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  • McGill University
  • German Electron Synchrotron
  • University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • Weizmann Institute of Science
  • Kyoto University
  • Lund University
  • P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Columbia University

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Abstract

This Letter reports the observation of WWW production and a measurement of its cross section using 139 fb-1 of proton-proton collision data recorded at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Events with two same-sign leptons (electrons or muons) and at least two jets, as well as events with three charged leptons, are selected. A multivariate technique is then used to discriminate between signal and background events. Events from WWW production are observed with a significance of 8.0 standard deviations, where the expectation is 5.4 standard deviations. The inclusive WWW production cross section is measured to be 820±100 (stat)±80 (syst) fb, approximately 2.6 standard deviations from the predicted cross section of 511±18 fb calculated at next-to-leading-order QCD and leading-order electroweak accuracy.

Original languageEnglish
Article number061803
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume129
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 5 2022

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