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Measurement of the W+W- Cross Section in root s=7 TeV pp Collisions with ATLAS

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Measurement of the W+W- Cross Section in root s=7 TeV pp Collisions with ATLAS. / The ATLAS collaboration.
In: Physical review letters, Vol. 107, No. 4, 041802, 2011.

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The ATLAS collaboration 2011, 'Measurement of the W+W- Cross Section in root s=7 TeV pp Collisions with ATLAS', Physical review letters, vol. 107, no. 4, 041802. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.041802

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The ATLAS collaboration (2011). Measurement of the W+W- Cross Section in root s=7 TeV pp Collisions with ATLAS. Physical review letters, 107(4), Article 041802. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.041802

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The ATLAS collaboration. Measurement of the W+W- Cross Section in root s=7 TeV pp Collisions with ATLAS. Physical review letters. 2011;107(4):041802. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.041802

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The ATLAS collaboration. / Measurement of the W+W- Cross Section in root s=7 TeV pp Collisions with ATLAS. In: Physical review letters. 2011 ; Vol. 107, No. 4.

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title = "Measurement of the W+W- Cross Section in root s=7 TeV pp Collisions with ATLAS",
abstract = "This Letter presents a measurement of the W+W- production cross section in root 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.",
author = "Adam Barton and Guennadi Borissov and Eva Bouhova-Thacker and Timothy Brodbeck and James Catmore and Sue Cheatham and Alexandre Chilingarov and Ruth Davidson and {de Mora}, Lee and Harald Fox and Robert Henderson and Gareth Hughes and Jones, {Roger William Lewis} and Vakhtang Kartvelishvili and Robin Long and Peter Love and Peter Ratoff and Terence Sloan and Maria Smizanska and James Walder and {The ATLAS collaboration}",
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AU - Borissov, Guennadi

AU - Bouhova-Thacker, Eva

AU - Brodbeck, Timothy

AU - Catmore, James

AU - Cheatham, Sue

AU - Chilingarov, Alexandre

AU - Davidson, Ruth

AU - de Mora, Lee

AU - Fox, Harald

AU - Henderson, Robert

AU - Hughes, Gareth

AU - Jones, Roger William Lewis

AU - Kartvelishvili, Vakhtang

AU - Long, Robin

AU - Love, Peter

AU - Ratoff, Peter

AU - Sloan, Terence

AU - Smizanska, Maria

AU - Walder, James

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AB - This Letter presents a measurement of the W+W- production cross section in root 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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