Measurement of the W+W- Cross Section in √s=7 TeV pp Collisions with ATLAS
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Taylor, Frank E.
Date Issued
July 2011
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Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
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G. Aad et al. “Measurement of the W+W- Cross Section in √s=7 TeV pp Collisions with ATLAS.” Physical Review Letters 107.4 (2011): 041802.
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Abstract
This Letter presents a measurement of the W[superscript +]W[superscript -] production cross section in √s=7 TeV pp collisions by the ATLAS experiment, using 34 pb[superscript -1] of integrated luminosity produced by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Selecting events with two isolated leptons, each either an electron or a muon, 8 candidate events are observed with an expected background of 1.7±0.6 events. The measured cross section is 41[subscript -16][superscript +20](stat)±5(syst)±1(lumi) pb, which is consistent with the standard model prediction of 44±3 pb calculated at next-to-leading order in QCD.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.041802
