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Measurement of fiducial and differential W+W- production cross-sections at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Aaboud, M 
Aad, G 
Abbott, B 
Abbott, DC 
Abdinov, O 

Abstract

A measurement of fiducial and differential cross-sections for W+W- production in proton–proton collisions at s=13 TeV with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb - 1 is presented. Events with one electron and one muon are selected, corresponding to the decay of the diboson system as WW→ e±νμ∓ν. To suppress top-quark background, events containing jets with a transverse momentum exceeding 35 GeV are not included in the measurement phase space. The fiducial cross-section, six differential distributions and the cross-section as a function of the jet-veto transverse momentum threshold are measured and compared with several theoretical predictions. Constraints on anomalous electroweak gauge boson self-interactions are also presented in the framework of a dimension-six effective field theory.

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Keywords

hep-ex, hep-ex

Journal Title

European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields

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Journal ISSN

1124-1861
1434-6052

Volume Title

79

Publisher

Springer Nature
Sponsorship
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/N000234/1)