Measurement of the W+W− production cross section in pp collisions at a centre-ofmass energy of √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS experiments
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2017
Authors
ATLAS Collaboration
Albert, Justin
David, Claire
Elliot, Alison A.
Fincke-Keeler, J.
Hamano, Kenji
Hill, Ewan Chin
Keeler, Richard
Kowalewski, Robert
Kuwertz, E. S.
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Physics Letters B
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The production of opposite-charge W-boson pairs in proton–proton collisions at 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.
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ATLAS Collaboration. (2017). Observation of the hyperfine spectrum of antihydrogen. Physics Letters B, 773, 354-374. DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2017.08.047