%0 Journal Article %T 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 %A ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al %A Amoros, G. %A Cabrera Urban, S. %A Castillo Gimenez, V. %A Costa, M. J. %A Ferrer, A. %A Fiorini, L. %A Fuster, J. %A Garcia, C. %A Gonzalez de la Hoz, S. %A Hernandez Jimenez, Y. %A Higon-Rodriguez, E. %A Irles Quiles, A. %A Kaci, M. %A Lacasta, C. %A Lacuesta, V. R. %A Marti-Garcia, S. %A Miñano, M. %A Mitsou, V. A. %A Moles-Valls, R. %A Moreno Llacer, M. %A Oliver Garcia, E. %A Perez Garcia-Estañ, M. T. %A Ros, E. %A Salt, J. %A Solans, C. A. %A Soldevila, U. %A Sanchez, J. %A Torro Pastor, E. %A Valladolid Gallego, E. %A Valls Ferrer, J. A. %A Villaplana Perez, M. %A Vos, M. %A Wildauer, A. %J Physical Review Letters %D 2012 %V 108 %N 4 %I Amer Physical Soc %@ 0031-9007 %G English %F ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2012 %O WOS:000299826400004 %O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=885), last updated on Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:09:03 +0000 %X 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. %R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.041804 %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.5016 %U https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.041804 %P 041804-18pp