PT Journal
AU ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, Gea
   Amoros, G
   Cabrera Urban, S
   Castillo Gimenez, V
   Costa, MJ
   Escobar, C
   Ferrer, A
   Fiorini, L
   Fuster, J
   Garcia, C
   Gonzalez de la Hoz, S
   Hernandez Jimenez, Y
   Higon-Rodriguez, E
   Irles Quiles, A
   Kaci, M
   Lacasta, C
   Lacuesta, VR
   Marti-Garcia, S
   Miñano, M
   Mitsou, VA
   Moles-Valls, R
   Moreno Llacer, M
   Oliver Garcia, E
   Perez Garcia-Estañ, MT
   Ros, E
   Salt, J
   Solans, CA
   Soldevila, U
   Sanchez, J
   Torro Pastor, E
   Valladolid Gallego, E
   Valls Ferrer, JA
   Villaplana Perez, M
   Vos, M
   Wildauer, A
TI Measurement of the W(+/-)Z production cross section and limits on anomalous triple gauge couplings in proton-proton collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
SO Physics Letters B
JI Phys. Lett. B
PY 2012
BP 341
EP 357
VL 709
IS 4-5
DI 10.1016/j.physletb.2012.02.053
LA English
AB This Letter presents a measurement of W(+/-)Z production in 1.02 fb(-1) of pp collision data at root s = 7 TeV collected by the ATLAS experiment in 2011. Doubly leptonic decay events are selected with electrons, muons and missing transverse momentum in the final state. In total 71 candidates are observed, with a background expectation of 12.1 +/- 1.4(stat.)(-2.0)(+4.1)(syst.) events. The total cross section for W(+/-)Z production for Z/gamma* masses within the range 66 GeV to 116 GeV is determined to be sigma(tot)(WZ) = 20.5(-2.8)(+3.1)(stat.)(-1.3)(+1.4)(syst)(-0.8)(+0.9)(lumi.) pb, which is consistent with the Standard Model expectation of 17.3(0.8)(+1.3) pb. Limits on anomalous triple gauge boson couplings are extracted.
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