Measurement of the W→τντ cross section in pp collisions at s=7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment

G Aad; B Abbott; J Abdallah; AA Abdelalim; A Abdesselam; O Abdinov; B Abi; M Abolins; H Abramowicz; H Abreu; E Acerbi; BS Acharya; DL Adams; TN Addy; J Adelman; M Aderholz; S Adomeit; P Adragna; T Adye; S Aefsky; JA Aguilar-Saavedra; M Aharrouche; SP Ahlen; F Ahles; A Ahmad; M Ahsan; G Aielli; T Akdogan; TPA Åkesson; G Akimoto; AV Akimov; A Akiyama; MS Alam; MA Alam; J Albert; S Albrand; M Aleksa; IN Aleksandrov; F Alessandria; C Alexa; G Alexander; G Alexandre; T Alexopoulos; M Alhroob; M Aliev; G Alimonti; J Alison; M Aliyev; PP Allport; SE Allwood-Spiers; J Almond; A Aloisio; R Alon; A Alonso; MG Alviggi; K Amako; P Amaral; C Amelung; VV Ammosov; A Amorim; G Amorós; N Amram; C Anastopoulos; LS Ancu; N Andari; T Andeen; CF Anders; G Anders; KJ Anderson; A Andreazza; V Andrei; ML Andrieux; XS Anduaga; A Angerami; F Anghinolfi; N Anjos; A Annovi; A Antonaki; M Antonelli; A Antonov; J Antos; F Anulli; S Aoun; L Aperio Bella; R Apolle; G Arabidze; I Aracena; Y Arai; ATH Arce; JP Archambault; S Arfaoui; JF Arguin; E Arik; M Arik; AJ Armbruster; O Arnaez; C Arnault; A Artamonov; G Artoni; D Arutinov

Journal article

Measurement of the W→τντ cross section in pp collisions at s=7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment

G Aad, B Abbott, J Abdallah, AA Abdelalim, A Abdesselam, O Abdinov, B Abi, M Abolins, H Abramowicz, H Abreu, E Acerbi, BS Acharya, DL Adams, TN Addy, J Adelman, M Aderholz, S Adomeit, P Adragna, T Adye, S Aefsky Show all

Physics Letters Section B Nuclear Elementary Particle and High Energy Physics | Published : 2012

DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2011.11.057

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Abstract

The cross section for the production of W bosons with subsequent decay W→τντ is measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The analysis is based on a data sample that was recorded in 2010 at a proton-proton center-of-mass energy of s=7 TeV and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 34 pb-1. The cross section is measured in a region of high detector acceptance and then extrapolated to the full phase space. The product of the total W production cross section and the W→τντ branching ratio is measured to be σW→τντtot=11.1±0.3(stat)±1.7(syst)±0.4(lumi) nb. © 2011 CERN.

University of Melbourne Researchers

Anna Phan Author

Martin Sevior Author

Elisabetta Barberio Author

Matteo Volpi Author

Grants

Awarded by Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (COLCIENCIAS)

Funding Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; CAS, MOST and NSFC, China; COLCIENCIAS, Colombia; MSMT CR, MPO CR and VSC CR, Czech Republic; DNRF, DNSRC and Lundbeck Foundation, Denmark; ARTEMIS, European Union; IN2P3-CNRS, CEA-DSM/IRFU, France; GNAS, Georgia; BMBF, DFG, HGF, MPG and AvH Foundation, Germany; GSRT, Greece; ISF, MINERVA, GIF, DIP and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; FOM and NWO, Netherlands; RCN, Norway; MNiSW, Poland; GRICES and FCT, Portugal; MERYS (MECTS), Romania; MES of Russia and ROSATOM, Russian Federation; JINR; MSTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MVZT, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MICINN, Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SER, SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; NSC, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, the Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States.