%0 Journal Article %T Measurement of the production of a W boson in association with a charm quark in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector %A ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al %A Cabrera Urban, S. %A Castillo Gimenez, V. %A Costa, M. J. %A Fassi, F. %A Ferrer, A. %A Fiorini, L. %A Fuster, J. %A Garcia, C. %A Garcia Navarro, J. E. %A Gonzalez de la Hoz, S. %A Hernandez Jimenez, Y. %A Higon-Rodriguez, E. %A Irles Quiles, A. %A Kaci, M. %A King, M. %A Lacasta, C. %A Lacuesta, V. R. %A March, L. %A Marti-Garcia, S. %A Miñano, M. %A Mitsou, V. A. %A Moles-Valls, R. %A Oliver Garcia, E. %A Pedraza Lopez, S. %A Perez Garcia-Estañ, M. T. %A Romero Adam, E. %A Ros, E. %A Salt, J. %A Sanchez Martinez, V. %A Soldevila, U. %A Sanchez, J. %A Torro Pastor, E. %A Valero, A. %A Valladolid Gallego, E. %A Valls Ferrer, J. A. %A Villaplana Perez, M. %A Vos, M. %J Journal of High Energy Physics %D 2014 %V 05 %N 5 %I Springer %@ 1029-8479 %G English %F ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2014 %O WOS:000336799600001 %O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=1811), last updated on Thu, 26 Jun 2014 12:10:13 +0000 %X The production of a W boson in association with a single charm quark is studied using 4.6 fb(-1) of pp collision data at root s = 7 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. In events in which a W boson decays to an electron or muon, the charm quark is tagged either by its semileptonic decay to a muon or by the presence of a charmed meson. The integrated and differential cross sections as a function of the pseudorapidity of the lepton from the W-boson decay are measured. Results are compared to the predictions of next-to-leading-order QCD calculations obtained from various parton distribution function parameterisations. The ratio of the strange-to-down sea-quark distributions is determined to be 0.96(-0.30)(+0.26) at Q (2) = 1.9 GeV2, which supports the hypothesis of an SU(3)-symmetric composition of the light-quark sea. Additionally, the cross-section ratio sigma(W (+) +)/sigma(W (-) + c) is compared to the predictions obtained using parton distribution function parameterisations with different assumptions about the s-(s) over bar quark asymmetry. %K Electroweak interaction %K Hadron-Hadron Scattering %K Charm physics %R 10.1007/JHEP05(2014)068 %U http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1402.6263 %U https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2014)068 %P 068-67pp