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

ATLAS Collaboration

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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 experiment

ATLAS Collaboration

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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 language	English
Pages (from-to)	354-374
Number of pages	21
Journal	Physics Letters B
Volume	773
Early online date	30 Aug 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.08.047
Publication status	Published - 10 Oct 2017

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37 pages in total, author list starting page 21, 8 figures, 8 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/

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