Measurement of the <i>W</i><SUP>+</SUP> <i>W</i><SUP>-</SUP> production cross section in <i>pp</i> collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of <i>√s</i>=13 TeV with the ATLAS experiment



Aaboud, M, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Abdinov, O, Abeloos, B, Aben, R, AbouZeid, OS, Abraham, NL, Abramowicz, H
et al (show 2830 more authors) (2017) Measurement of the <i>W</i><SUP>+</SUP> <i>W</i><SUP>-</SUP> production cross section in <i>pp</i> collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of <i>√s</i>=13 TeV with the ATLAS experiment. PHYSICS LETTERS B, 773. pp. 354-374.

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Abstract

The production of opposite-charge $W$-boson pairs in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 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.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: 38 pages in total, author list starting page 22, 3 figures, 5 tables, submitted to Phys. Lett. B. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/STDM-2015-20/. This version matches publication
Uncontrolled Keywords: hep-ex, hep-ex
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 26 Apr 2017 10:05
Last Modified: 18 Oct 2023 07:30
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2017.08.047
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3006672