: This Letter reports the observation of WWW production and a measurement of its cross section using 139 fb^{-1} of proton-proton collision data recorded at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Events with two same-sign leptons (electrons or muons) and at least two jets, as well as events with three charged leptons, are selected. A multivariate technique is then used to discriminate between signal and background events. Events from WWW production are observed with a significance of 8.0 standard deviations, where the expectation is 5.4 standard deviations. The inclusive WWW production cross section is measured to be 820±100 (stat)±80 (syst) fb, approximately 2.6 standard deviations from the predicted cross section of 511±18 fb calculated at next-to-leading-order QCD and leading-order electroweak accuracy.
Observation of WWW Production in pp Collisions at sqrt[s]=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector / Add, G.; Aloisio, A.; Alviggi, M.; Canale, V.; Cirotto, F.; Della Pietra, M.; Merola, L.; Massarotti, P.; Rossi, E.; Conventi, F.; Izzo, V.; Sekhniaidze, G. G.; Camerlingo, M. T.; Iengo, P.; Di Donato, C.; De Asmundis, R.; Carlino, G.; Al, Et; Loffredo, Salvatore. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. - ISSN 0031-9007. - 129:6(2022), p. 061803. [10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.061803]
Observation of WWW Production in pp Collisions at sqrt[s]=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector
A. Aloisio;M. Alviggi;V. Canale;F. Cirotto;M. Della Pietra;L. Merola;P. Massarotti;E. Rossi;LOFFREDO, Salvatore
2022
Abstract
: This Letter reports the observation of WWW production and a measurement of its cross section using 139 fb^{-1} of proton-proton collision data recorded at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Events with two same-sign leptons (electrons or muons) and at least two jets, as well as events with three charged leptons, are selected. A multivariate technique is then used to discriminate between signal and background events. Events from WWW production are observed with a significance of 8.0 standard deviations, where the expectation is 5.4 standard deviations. The inclusive WWW production cross section is measured to be 820±100 (stat)±80 (syst) fb, approximately 2.6 standard deviations from the predicted cross section of 511±18 fb calculated at next-to-leading-order QCD and leading-order electroweak accuracy.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
