Measurement of the W→τντ cross section in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment
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Taylor, Frank E.
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December 2011
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Physics Letters B
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Elsevier
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Aad, G., B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, A.A. Abdelalim, A. Abdesselam, O. Abdinov, B. Abi, et al. “Measurement of the W→τντ Cross Section in Pp Collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS Experiment.” Physics Letters B 706, no. 4–5 (January 2012): 276–294. © 2011 CERN
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The cross section for the production of W bosons with subsequent decay W→τντ is measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The analysis is based on a data sample that was recorded in 2010 at a proton–proton center-of-mass energy of √s = 7 TeV and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 34 pb[superscript −1]. The cross section is measured in a region of high detector acceptance and then extrapolated to the full phase space. The product of the total W production cross section and the W→τντ branching ratio is measured to be σ[tot over W]→τντ = 11.1±0.3 (stat) ±1.7 (syst) ±0.4 (lumi) nb.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2011.11.057
