TY - JOUR AU - ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al AU - Amoros, G. AU - Cabrera Urban, S. AU - Castillo Gimenez, V. AU - Costa, M. J. AU - Ferrer, A. AU - Fiorini, L. AU - Fuster, J. AU - Garcia, C. AU - Gonzalez de la Hoz, S. AU - Hernandez Jimenez, Y. AU - Higon-Rodriguez, E. AU - Irles Quiles, A. AU - Kaci, M. AU - Lacasta, C. AU - Lacuesta, V. R. AU - Marti-Garcia, S. AU - Miñano, M. AU - Mitsou, V. A. AU - Moles-Valls, R. AU - Moreno Llacer, M. AU - Oliver Garcia, E. AU - Perez Garcia-Estañ, M. T. AU - Ros, E. AU - Salt, J. AU - Solans, C. A. AU - Soldevila, U. AU - Sanchez, J. AU - Torro Pastor, E. AU - Valladolid Gallego, E. AU - Valls Ferrer, J. A. AU - Villaplana Perez, M. AU - Vos, M. AU - Wildauer, A. PY - 2012 DA - 2012// TI - Measurement of the ZZ Production Cross Section and Limits on Anomalous Neutral Triple Gauge Couplings in Proton-Proton Collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS Detector T2 - Phys. Rev. Lett. JO - Physical Review Letters SP - 041804 EP - 18pp VL - 108 IS - 4 PB - Amer Physical Soc AB - A measurement of the ZZ production cross section in proton-proton collisions at root s = 7 TeV using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.02 fb(-1) recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC is presented. Twelve events containing two Z boson candidates decaying to electrons and/or muons are observed, with an expected background of 0.3 +/- 0.3(stat)(-0.3)(+0.4)(syst) events. The cross section measured in a phase-space region with good detector acceptance and for dilepton masses within the range 66 to 116 GeV is sigma(fid)(ZZ -> l+l-l+l-) = 19.4(-5.2)(+6.3)(stat)(-0.7)(+0.9)(syst) +/- 0.7(lumi) fb. The resulting total cross section for on-shell ZZ production, sigma(tot)(ZZ) = 8.5(-2.3)(+2.7)(stat)(-0.3)(+0.4)(syst) +/- 0.3(lumi) pb, is consistent with the standard model expectation of 6.5(-0.2)(+0.3) pb calculated at the next-to-leading order in QCD. Limits on anomalous neutral triple gauge boson couplings are derived. SN - 0031-9007 UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.5016 UR - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.041804 DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.041804 LA - English N1 - WOS:000299826400004 ID - ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2012 ER -