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 - Escobar, C. AU - Ferrer, A. 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 - Mi̱ano, M. AU - Mitsou, V. A. AU - Moles-Valls, R. AU - Moreno Llacer, M. AU - Oliver Garcia, E. AU - Perez Garcia-Esta̱, 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 - 2011 DA - 2011// TI - Measurement of the production cross section for W-bosons in association with jets in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector T2 - Phys. Lett. B JO - Physics Letters B SP - 325 EP - 345 VL - 698 IS - 5 PB - Elsevier Science Bv KW - W-boson KW - Jets KW - ATLAS KW - LHC KW - Proton-proton KW - 7 TeV AB - This Letter reports on a first measurement of the inclusive W + jets cross section in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV at the LHC, with the ATLAS detector. Cross sections, in both the electron and muon decay modes of the W-boson, are presented as a function of jet multiplicity and of the transverse momentum of the leading and next-to-leading jets in the event. Measurements are also presented of the ratio of cross sections sigma (W + >= n)/sigma(W + >= n Р1) for inclusive jet multiplicities n = 1-4. The results, based on an integrated luminosity of 1.3 pb(-1), have been corrected for all known detector effects and are quoted in a limited and well-defined range of jet and lepton kinematics. The measured cross sections are compared to particle-level predictions based on perturbative QCD. Next-to-leading order calculations, studied here for n <= 2, are found in good agreement with the data. Leading-order multiparton event generators, normalized to the NNLO total cross section, describe the data well for all measured jet multiplicities. SN - 0370-2693 UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1012.5382 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2011.03.012 DO - 10.1016/j.physletb.2011.03.012 LA - English N1 - ISI:000290185500001 ID - ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2011 ER -