Observation of <i>WWW</i> Production in <i>pp</i> Collisions at √<i>s</i>=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector



Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abud, A Abed, Abeling, K, Abhayasinghe, DK, Abidi, SH, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H
et al (show 2847 more authors) (2022) Observation of <i>WWW</i> Production in <i>pp</i> Collisions at √<i>s</i>=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 129 (6). 061803-.

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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.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: ATLAS Collaboration
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 07 Oct 2022 10:15
Last Modified: 14 Oct 2023 06:13
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.061803
Open Access URL: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/Phys...
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3165142