Allbrooke, B M M, Asquith, L, Cerri, A, Chavez Barajas, C A, De Santo, A, Salvatore, F, Santoyo Castillo, I, Suruliz, K, Sutton, M R, Vivarelli, I and The ATLAS Collaboration, et al. (2011) Evidence for electroweak production of W±W±jj in pp collisions at √s=8  TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physical Review Letters, 113 (141803). ISSN 0031-9007

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Abstract

This Letter presents the first study of W±W±jj, same-electric-charge diboson production in association with two jets, using 20.3  fb−1 of proton-proton collision data at √s=8  TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Events with two reconstructed same-charge leptons (e±e±, e±μ±, and μ±μ±) and two or more jets are analyzed. Production cross sections are measured in two fiducial regions, with different sensitivities to the electroweak and strong production mechanisms. First evidence for W±W±jj production and electroweak-only W±W±jj production is observed with a significance of 4.5 and 3.6 standard deviations, respectively. The measured production cross sections are in agreement with standard model predictions. Limits at 95% confidence level are set on anomalous quartic gauge couplings.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Research Centres and Groups:	Experimental Particle Physics Research Group
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Depositing User:	Billy Wichaidit
Date Deposited:	03 May 2017 08:55
Last Modified:	03 May 2017 09:33
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/67627

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