Measurement of the W -> tau nu(tau) cross section in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment ATLAS Collaboration

UNSPECIFIED (2012) Measurement of the W -> tau nu(tau) cross section in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment ATLAS Collaboration. Physics Letters B, 706 (4-5). pp. 276-294. ISSN 0370-2693

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Abstract

The cross section for the production of W bosons with subsequent decay W -> tau nu(tau) 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 root s = 7 TeV and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 34 pb(-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 -> tau nu(tau) branching ratio is measured to be sigma(tot)(W -> tau nu tau) = 11.1 +/- 0.3 (stat) +/- 1.7 (syst) +/- 0.4 (lumi) nb.

Item Type:

Journal Article

Journal or Publication Title:

Physics Letters B

Additional Information:

This article is published Open Access at sciencedirect.com. It is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited.

Uncontrolled Keywords:

/dk/atira/pure/core/keywords/physics

Subjects:

?? w bosonstandard model τ leptonphysicsnuclear and high energy physics ??

Departments:

Faculty of Science and Technology > Physics

ID Code:

68234

Deposited By:

ep_importer_pure

Deposited On:

04 Jan 2014 00:06

Refereed?:

Yes

Published?:

Published

Last Modified:

15 Oct 2024 00:02

URI:

https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/68234