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

Summary, in English

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. © 2017 The Author

• Author: M Aaboud; G Aad; B. Abbott; J Abdallah; O Abdinov; B Abeloos; Torsten Åkesson; Simona Bocchetta; Lene Bryngemark; Caterina Doglioni; Vincent Hedberg; Göran Jarlskog; Else Lytken; Ulf Mjörnmark; Oxana Smirnova; Oleksandr Viazlo
• Department/s: Particle and nuclear physics; eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
• Publishing year: 2017
• Language: English
• Pages: 354-374
• Publication/Series: Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
• Volume: 773
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.08.047
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Topic: Subatomic Physics
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 0370-2693