PT Journal AU ATLAS Collaboration (Aaboud, Mea Alvarez Piqueras, D Barranco Navarro, L Cabrera Urban, S Castillo Gimenez, V Cerda Alberich, L Costa, MJ Fernandez Martinez, P Ferrer, A Fiorini, L Fuster, J Garcia, C Garcia Navarro, JE Gonzalez de la Hoz, S Higon-Rodriguez, E Jimenez Pena, J King, M Lacasta, C Lacuesta, VR Mamuzic, J Marti-Garcia, S Melini, D Mitsou, VA Pedraza Lopez, S Rodriguez Rodriguez, D Romero Adam, E Ros, E Salt, J Sanchez Martinez, V Soldevila, U Sanchez, J Valero, A Valls Ferrer, JA Vos, M TI Measurement of the W+ W- production cross section in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS experiment SO Physics Letters B JI Phys. Lett. B PY 2017 BP 354 EP 374 VL 773 DI 10.1016/j.physletb.2017.08.047 LA English AB The production of opposite-charge W-boson pairs in proton-proton collisions at root 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. ER