Measurement of the W+W- Cross Section in root s=7 TeV pp Collisions with ATLAS

UNSPECIFIED (2011) Measurement of the W+W- Cross Section in root s=7 TeV pp Collisions with ATLAS. Physical review letters, 107 (4): 041802. ISSN 1079-7114

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Abstract

This Letter presents a measurement of the W+W- production cross section in root s = 7 TeV pp collisions by the ATLAS experiment, using 34 pb(-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(-16)(+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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Journal Article
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Physical review letters
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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?? physics and astronomy(all)qc physics ??
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68104
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Deposited On:
17 Dec 2013 16:13
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