Publication: Measurement of the W+W- Cross Section in √s=7 TeV pp Collisions with ATLAS
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2011-07-20
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This Letter presents a measurement of the W+W- production cross section in √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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proton-proton collisions;