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Events with an isolated lepton and missing transverse momentum and measurement of W production at HERA

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Article number35
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>9/03/2010
<mark>Journal</mark>Journal of High Energy Physics
Issue number3
Volume2010
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

A search for events containing an isolated electron or muon and missing transverse momentum produced in e±p collisions is performed with the H1 and ZEUS detectors at HERA. The data were taken in the period 1994-2007 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 0.98 fb-1. The observed event yields are in good overall agreement with the Standard Model prediction, which is dominated by single W production. In the e+p data, at large hadronic transverse momentum PTX < 25GeV, a total of 23 events are observed compared to a prediction of 14.0 ±1.9. The total single W boson production cross section is measured as 1.06 ± 0.16 (stat.) ± 0.07 (sys.) pb, in agreement with an Standard Model (SM) expectation of 1.26 ± 0.19 pb.